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Old project file, with new colours for this year, and next to as there are another couple of new designs to share.

I like the second design … it looks a bit like Christmas morning with a few little ones around opening presents!

Interesting design.

Love the second design. I should have added the pale green to the border of the first design!

Interesting design for any time of the year.

The second design also good for anytime, though I would change the colours to spring colours.

As I selected this design I thought I really liked it. Then I moved attention to the next design.

I love the second design.

I have worked out what I want for Christmas … a magic wand which would create a quilt every day, but even then I will never catch up with all the virtual designs I would like to make real.

I love it!

The background colour is a bit dark in the second design.

Needs to be washed out until it becomes pale grey perhaps.

The colouring for the designs is based on how the Sturt Pea grows in nature, though I have made the green much greener, it is more sage in nature, but the flowers and the dirt they grow in are close to nature.

My favourite of these two is the second one.

Very simple borders with rather complicated corners makes a very interesting frame .

Love the mixture of applique and pieced borders in the second design.

Very interesting, bit I suspect it may be a little time consuming to make it real!

Also very interesting, and no less time consuming.

Interesting!

Love the centre block.

After selecting the first design I started playing with the designs in the project file, as I wanted to change the design which was next in line. I deleted a couple, and added a couple of handfuls.

I like the new background colour, which I had introduced as part of a couple of designs, making it the dominate background in all future designs. There will be more quilting added to future designs too.

Love the applique blocks, not so much the pieced blocks, though the resulting designs are OK.

The first design is my favourite of today’s selection.

I think I might have to play with some different pieced blocks, and sometime in the not to distant future because there are no more designs in this project file, but I think I will keep the same colouring for the applique blocks.

No waratahs, lots of wattle. In these designs the wattle is Drummonds Wattle.

Interesting flowers which would look good in many other colours, but as far as I know the real thing only comes in one colour.

This project file uses my version of the state flower of South Australia … the Sturt Desert Pea. It is an annual, though the seasons are based on rain rather than calendar months. The plant emerges soon after rain in dry sandy red sand in desert areas, and flowers profusely for a short period, and sprawls along the ground with the flowers sitting above the carpet of soft grey green.

My Mum had a small clump which flowered after a good rain, but I haven’t been able to keep them alive beyond one flowering season, but in my virtual world ...

It may be spring time in Australia, but my advice for any brides planning to get married in the near future is to have some winter woolies to keep you warm, or plan all activities for the day to be indoors with central heating.

At least there are some hardy spring flowers adding colour to the garden, though the weeds are trying to keep them out of view.

Pretty and dainty.

Because I share my bed with my husband this is not the sort of design or colour combination I could use on our bed, but I can design as many of this style and colouring as I like.

I have never lived with an indoor cat but every so often one gets to admire my quilt designs.

Not Australian colours, but would love to see our wildflowers mutate into these colours.

I could have an Aussie coloured front garden, and a purple back garden!

This project file was started with a collection of blocks which needed some attention, and the block collection has grown and is now appearing in some quilt designs.

Flowers are often seen dancing in the wind, but in some of these blocks the flowers seem to be following more formal dance routines.

I love playing with applique in Electric Quilt … Draw one item, add another, and another, take one away, replace it with something else. I save each variation so I can go back to previous versions.

These two designs are from a long, long time ago … I think the first variations were in EQ5, and I decided I would share them before I saved the blocks, but will eventually update the quilts.

Pretty.

More prettiness. I love the colours in this project file, which reflects the colours I like most in my garden, and most other gardens. Flowers of pink, purple, blue and white, with green leaves. Unfortunately there are usually green weeds too!

Love the combination of the centre block and the frame of the Irish Chain blocks.

Simple, but with a more elaborate border to frame the interior and the quilting which could fill the spaces.

I love the sashing in this design. I rarely use sashing in my designs, though in many of the quilts I have made I have used sashing, but not one as interesting as the one shown above.

I like the border on the second design, but am asking myself what if I make some changes of scale of the end elements?

PS I apologize for not posting this earlier, but I had a few other things I wanted to do and forgot, but I did get those other things done!