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This is as far as I have got with mixing more than two colours in basic 9P blocks … and the results can be stunning if you like the colours!

The half blocks around the edge of the second design are interesting!

It continues to amaze me that very basic pieced 9 Patch blocks can be mixed and matched in both straight and on point settings to create a huge variety of interesting designs in just two fabrics. If one the blocks is made in a lighter or darker shade, or any other colour a whole different look would be created.

One day I think I will start mixing colours and contrast to these designs … that is if I get bored playing with applique designs.

Yesterday 9×9 blocks were too busy, but this project file proves that it is worth making 81 blocks if they are the right blocks and the right contrast and colours.

I love both of these designs!

Same block collection as yesterday’s designs, but different colourway.

Purple and green are two of my favourite colours, and I find it interesting to see similar designs in different colours.

This is the last post for 2023 … but not long to wait for 2024 to get underway … happy new year!

Interesting and I like it.

The blocks look rather complicated, but if broken down into nine small squares, some of them whole squares, they are not quite as complicated as they look.

The second design is also interesting, but not as interesting as the first.

Make some star blocks with a dark background fabric, add some plain dark fabric blocks, then quilt with light thread, fill in the larger blank areas of quilting with stippling in a thread to match the background fabric.

I like both these designs.

Not a lot of variety in the blocks, but there are open spaces for quilting.

Three different blocks, and room for quilting.

Expect another post later … so plan a coffee break.

Winter sport finals are happening all around the country, and the local clubs have some teams in the grand finals today, and wearing red and white.

Also our state quilters guild is celebrating their ruby anniversary next year, and calling for red and white quilts for the exhibition. The hardest part of two colour quilts is to find a good selection of prints with a good match of the colours, so I would be looking for designs with as few fabrics as possible.

The second design would work with a limited number of red, red and white, and probably a ...

This series was started when I wondered what might happen when the corners of Nine Patch pieced blocks met to create a secondary design, and sometimes leaving five blank blocks in the centre of the original blocks.

In these two designs the bows are where the four corners meet, and the blank spaces are left plain so the quilting can be the feature. That means that all three layers in Electric Quilt can be put to good use!

Very basic nine patch blocks, but not the usual sort of use of colour placement.

Interesting!

If ever I get all the unfinished projects, and the planned projects, finished, I will be making quilts with some low contrast fabrics like the designs in this project file.

Love the second design today.

I remember that a few years ago there was an exhibition of red and white quilts, and it looked absolutely stunning. I have heard that our state guild is issuing a challenge for entries of red and white quilts in the next exhibition, and I woke up this morning with red and white designs going round my mind, so made myself a coffee and turned on the computer and opened electric quilt.

I think these are pretty good designs with a brain fueled with just one cup of coffee. I must have another cup and see what I can do ...

The last few days have been bright, but with clear blue skies there has been no protection from the cold … perhaps some bright colours will make me feel warmer.

Love the second design!

These designs use just one very basic block, the basic Nine Patch, which is simply nine squares stitched together to make a square block. The designs could be made with just two fabrics, or one rather plain light background fabric with contrasting dark scraps.

I love the border of these designs too … simply 5 narrow strips of five different fabrics which includes the dark fabric used in the blocks, with the darkest of the fabrics used as the binding.

This project file is the result of a thought I had at about 3am one morning, when I am at my my creative. However, that was one of those thoughts I actually remembered when I woke up at a more reasonable hour.

The thought was to draft the corners of 9P blocks so that they met other blocks with identical corners to create a pattern independent of the other five squares in the 9P block. The corner designs stand out better in the first of these two designs, but become more a part of the overall design in the second ...

Electric Quilt Library blocks with a couple of modifications, and though I sometimes leave the two files using the same blocks, this one with a straight setting, the other on point, untouched for months, I kick myself for not opening them more often because I love pretty much every quilt design.

Today’s designs have only a minor change, but I would find it hard to choose which one to make.

Interesting.

Can anyone guess what song the name for this project file came from?

I like the second design very much!

Interesting way to link a heap of identical blocks.

I like the second design!

Interesting! Very basic blocks on point.

Love the second one!

Wow! Very interesting.

Second one interesting too.