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I love the colours … very feminine though!

I love the second design for the colour choices and the pretty floral applique and quilting motifs.

Electric Quilt 8 allows users to use some very unusual settings for blocks in quilt layouts, and distorts the block designs added to the setting to fit the shapes. The design above uses a standard floral applique block design in each of the shapes in the hexagon.

Ooops!!! I have just noticed that i used a different variation of the block in two triangles!

Just as well I didn’t cut any fabrics for this one!

Love the layout in the second design, but the fabric choice is a bit off-putting.

Love the green appearing in the background as it is now the end of a dry winter and there has been very little green on the ground … there has even been less weeds in the garden. (Not a lot less though.)

I love the second design, especially the centre!

Perhaps it is the extra green that makes it more attractive to me.

I would have loved to walk into a hotel/motel on our wedding night to see something like these designs on the bed!

They would work as whole cloth quilts too, with the applique shapes outlined with two rows of stitching, and a boring background filler.

I love Strings of Beads. The beads themselves can be cut from any scraps of fabric, selected scraps, or purchased fabrics. Mark the shapes onto fusible webbing before ironing onto the wrong side of the fabric, and then cut out.

I love the second design!

Unfortunately, field mushrooms have been very scarce this year due to lack of rain. Will have to wait until next year before we head out to the paddocks and pick up a feed. Unfortunately, mushrooms on in the supermarkets are a poor substitute for the real deal.

Admittedly, the mushrooms depicted in these designs are not white and flattish, but despite not being attractive from an edible point of view, they look more attractive in the quilt environment.

I started this project file after a road trip which included some rather impressive public buildings, some in the national capital. I thought some of my applique designs could look impressive if were used on tiles to use on floors in hallways, along with kitchens, laundries, bathrooms and toilets. All I have do now is win a massive cross lotto so I can get them made and installed!

In the meantime I can play with virtual quilt designs without damaging any fabric.

Interesting!

The blocks in this project are from the Electric Quilt Library, though I have modified them to create borders and simple filler blocks.

I like the second one best!

Interesting! Knee rug or tablecloth? Perhaps one of each.

Make the applique border wider and it is definitely for a bed.

I love my favourite toy … Electric Quilt 8.

Start with a mixed up collection of letters … check that there are twenty six different ones for a serve of alphabet soup!

Sort them into alphabetical order and add capitals and you have a quilt design for a kindy kid.

Use the letters in a border …

… and use it to frame A Bear in a Cart! Easy as ABC!

Dainty!

Still dainty, but with heavier borders. This is the one I would make for our bed … if we didn’t already have three queen size quilts.

This project file uses block designs from the Electric Quilt Library which I have added to by mixing up the pieces and leaving some out elsewhere to make border blocks.

I like using block designs as quilting motifs and I show them in contrast thread, but I would add more quilting, but not too much, to fill the background space in a thread to match the background fabric.

Pink and pretty! Perfect for a little girl.

The second design is also pink and pretty, but I prefer the first one. The second would be better expanded to queen size.

Very pretty!

I love the colours in this project … and they are in a lot of other projects in my Electric Quilt files.

The low contrast in these designs would make a very restful look in a bedroom.

How ever, there are only 2 designs left in the project file and I think I will play with the colours a bit!

The designs in this project file are very feminine ,and very pretty.

By the way, the spoon which inspired this series of designs is the spoon which is in my coffee jar, the one I use to add sugar to my coffee every morning.

Love the first design as it is, but should have put something in the diamonds on each side.

Love the second design too!

Interesting … and could be interesting to see it made up with mixed colours. Of course, the background colour could be any darkish colour with white applique and quilting too.

I like the stronger contrast in the second design, achieved by simply using five applique blocks with more solid shapes.

Interesting design with room for quilting to shine in the border.

The design above is a lovely all over design, but is more tangled than the designs shared yesterday!

I started this project file ages ago, with the intention of adding a flower to the centre of each cluster of green leaves, or adding a flower to the centre leaf of each bunch of leaves. The grass has not yet flowered, but in my garden at the moment a lot of the weeds are producing seeds for net years crop!

While waiting for the moment I find incentive to add flowers, I thought I would share the grassy patches before they die back … but the might look interesting in the many shades of yellow and gold of dry grass.