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I have thought that the background colour of some of these designs is wrong, but then I remember that bush fires leave behind a blackened landscape, which is home to a lot of seeds of plants which start growing after rain, and are soon producing flowers.

Once the flora starts showing their colours, the fauna also come out to enjoy the new growth, including our native hopping mouse which is unrelated to the average mouse, but is part of the marsupial species which thrive in Australia.

Today I am sharing two colourways of the same design, first with a slightly off white, light sandy coloured fabric.

The second the background is a total black out!

I love both of them, and I also love the Mitchell Hopping mice which found their way into the designs. I had a close encounter with a hopping mouse during a mouse plaque many years ago.

I had traps set all around the house to catch any, and hopefully every mouse which found it’s way indoors, but rarely saw any mice except in the traps, until one day I wandered ...

Australian wild flowers, with the South Australian state emblem in the centre … Sturt’s Desert Pea. The background colour is one of the many associated with the sandy areas of Australian inland.

The second designs features flowers of three Aussie bush shrubs.

Can you name the flowers? How about the animals?

The Australian bush is anything but neat and formal like these quilts, but the flowers are stunning.

These blocks were first drawn with pencils on butcher’s paper, then transferred to Electric Quilt 5 … and I still like them.

Australia has some weird and wonderful native flowers, with lots of colour.

Not a new project file, but one I found in the deepest, darkest corners of Electric Quilt, with some previously shared.

The flowers are all Australian native flowers, from small to giant plants … the smallest knee high, the largest up to 60 feet tall.

The animals who have slipped in for a look are Aussie too, marsupials about the size of a mouse, who hop like a kangaroo.

Here are some links to some earlier designs in this file, though it appears some have disappeared over time and through computer changes and Electric Quilt updates!