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One of my very favourite project files.
 

I love the colours, and the blocks are a varied collection of applique and pieced designs, which of course have been modified a little!

WOW!!!  Love the first design.

The colours could be a bit brighter, but the contrast is spot on, and the quilting design works well. though the quilting could use a little more detail.

The second design looks unfinished without the applique border  in the first design, and the quilting could use a little more detail.

I want to add lots of quilting motifs to this project file, but am finding that less is better.

I haven’t got the right colour thread either … though most times I would use a colour which blends in to the background, but  try to use more contrast on virtual quilts.

Dad’s favourite colour was green, Mum’s was purple. 

They also  attract bees  and butterflies into gardens.

I didn’t have favourite colours until I put these two together.

I think I should look for a green between the one in the background of these two designs.

The first is rather dusty, like my house, and all the others within  miles … no rain for months!

Then  comes my favourite for the day …. Love the vertical cross with the diagonal cross blocks around it.
 

Very deep purple , very bright green. Not a combination I had ever thought of. Had thought of similar, but usually a  bit lighter.

I didn’t intend dog faces to appear in the two designs, but they did!

At least they don’t bark all day and all night.

Enough with the dogs, how about some pointy bits.

Not too sure that I like the last one … looks a bit weird!

Many Australian native plants can survive drought conditions, but they look forward to the break of droughts just like Aussie people, especially those who live in the country areas and provide food for those who live in the more built up areas.

The best flowers visible from my garden this year  were a couple of gum trees over our back fence, one with red flowers, one yellow..

In the second design the corners are different … I couldn’t decide which one I liked best, so left  them as they were. A real quilt made like this could be used with ...

Sometimes I have crazy ideas, like what if I select a random collection applique  block designs, and a random collection of pieced block designs for a new project file?

So I did … Jeparit Jewels  and some 9P stars.

I should have limited the number of designs in each of the block collections, but I didn’t.

After the first design came together I had to add fabric … and based the colours on the applique collection rather than the bright used in the stars.

So far, interesting!

I am not too sure if the  shapes of the applique will work well ...

Happy New Year!

First day of a new year and it is the middle of the week already!

Usually the middle of the week is when I share some Log Cabin quilt designs … but today being the beginning of the year I would do something different to celebrate the new year.

It has been a long time since I have played with deigns of medallion quilts … quilts which start with a central block, then a variety of borders until it reaches the size required.

The two pieced borders in the design above are from the Electric Quilt Block Library, the ...

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day … we certainly did, surrounded by extended family, some of whom I was looking down on when I last saw them, but are now looking down on me, new members and in-laws of we had only seen at a wedding!

Most of the younger generation came dressed ready to spend time in the pool, though at least a couple of a slightly older generation didn’t have their togs, but went in anyway, but had to refrain in the last hour so they didn’t have to wear wet clothes on the ...

I should have changed those sprays of leaves to holly leaves to make the deigns in this file look more Christmassy, and added a bit of white, but I the designs it as they are so they could be used all year round, and because I think they look like something which may have been made early last century just for the Christmas season.

The second design is my favourite of the two.

Elegant!

The star of today’s designs.

Very interesting! I was going to reverse the inside trees but liked them as they are, so left them inside out, or upside down, or whatever.

I like the second design too … all the trees are upright, and so are the snowmen!

Interesting and likable.

Another interesting design, and it is also likeable … hard to pick a favourite.

Love the first design … would make a great table cloth, except for the chance that someone would spill the cream on the cloth rather than pour it on the pudding!

Love the second one too, and as we have a special quilt for the bed already, perhaps I would find a spot to hang it on a wall.

Interesting design and interesting colours in the first design. Yesterday’s designs were very feminine, but these have at least a masculine touch in both blocks and colours.

My favourite for today is the second design.

A very interesting first design.

Ditto the second design!

My favourite of the two is the first one.

Interesting!

The second design is also interesting but my favourite today is the first design.

I have started scribbling a new applique version of Double Wedding Rings … now all I need an hour or two to sit at the computer and draw the blocks before I can use them in quilt designs.

If I had started quilting about 10 years before I did I would have made one of these designs to loan to newly wed children, nieces and nephews, for a month or so after their big day, adding the names and dates of each wedding … but by the time I started quilting some had already tied the knot, and now the next generation are making plans, and I am behind in making quilts for them to keep.

Maybe one of the next generation will become a quilter, and they can backdate the names to their great grandparents!

Very interesting!

I would be tempted to embroider the quilting designs, but either leaving it as quilted or embroidered I would do background quilting in a thread to match the background.