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Medallion quilts start with one block, usually larger than the average block, and then surrounded by two or more borders. I like keeping the background the same as the centre block, which sort of makes the whole design look like one very big block.

Some of the border designs leave blank spaces which can be used to add quilted border designs. I am thinking that I will start another medallion quilt project file and along with modifying some of the borders used in this file will add some quilting motifs.

I am not too sure which of these is my ...

Blocks in this project file came from Electric Quilt Block Library, with a few modifications added.

This was one of the early project files I started to share on Virtual Quilter blog.

My favourite today is the first design.

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.

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

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

My favourite thing about today’s designs are the backgrounds … pieced together from random light fabrics. I have a stash of background fabrics just waiting to be cut up and joined together into squares, which will then probably have to wait again for the applique.

Local weather here could use a touch of the tropics … crops should be green and growing, instead they are brown rather than the gold of ripe crops. A bit of tropical rain could at least get feed growing for stock even if it is too late for crops for human consumption.

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!

Very interesting start for a new project file, though i have to admit that the project file was started months ago, but got shoved into a corner until a few hours ago. I wonder how many more files are in hiding!

I always like mixing pieced blocks with applique designs … both in my virtual quilts and in real life.

I started this project file by selecting 11 blocks, along with some fabrics, and started playing. The fabric choices for these designs are a bit dull, but I like subdued colours in a bedroom rather than bright ones … I want my bedroom to be restful.

My favourite today is the second design.

Very interesting, and not my usual taste of colour combination for me to play with.

Second design is also interesting.

This project file started when I was teaching a small group some tricks to designing quilts in Electric Quilt quite a few years ago, using blocks from the EQ Library, but making changes to them to fit better into a design.

This colour collection sets a happy mood for me. Perhaps it is the combination of my Mums favourite colour, purple, Dad’s favourite colour green, and the gold of crops ready to reap so all the bills could be paid over the next year.

I love the first design!

The quilting as shown I would do in a contrast colour, but I would add some fillers in a colour to match the background.

The second design appeals to me too, but nowhere as much as the first.

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.

Very similar to yesterday’s designs in colour and style … but a different collection of designs. I have no idea why I have 2 project files so similar, but perhaps I missed my morning coffee one morning!

I am intrigued with the way the X shapes between the corner blocks become an extension of the blocks inserted amongst them.

Interesting!

This project file has been ignored for a couple of years, but I decided that today it could come out of it’s hiding place.

Love the second one.

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!