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I have used just two fabrics in these designs, but with the idea that if I made them into real quilts they would be made with scraps of light and dark fabrics.

This project fie has been ignored for a couple of years, but I think I should play with colours … the hardest part will be picking the colours!

Interesting design, pretty fabric choices.

I love the second design … totally different to anything I have ever seen anywhere.

Nice!

Different , and I love it.

The big question is … how would you quilt the outer blocks in the second design? Something very simple, or something very busy …. or something in between. I do think I would use matching thread.

Make some star blocks with a dark background fabric, add some plain dark fabric blocks, then quilt with light thread, fill in the larger blank areas of quilting with stippling in a thread to match the background fabric.

I like both these designs.

While converting a design with a white background to one with a red background I noticed some of the versions and decided to save each one, then worked out that if I added the new background blocks in a different order I got different designs, and some of them were rather impressive.

I picked out one block to change, but missed one of them, but saved the design anyway.

One on the left is interesting, and I like the one on the right.

The four above are getting more dark background added with some very interesting results!

Getting more interesting ...

Not a lot of variety in the blocks, but there are open spaces for quilting.

Three different blocks, and room for quilting.

Expect another post later … so plan a coffee break.

Winter sport finals are happening all around the country, and the local clubs have some teams in the grand finals today, and wearing red and white.

Also our state quilters guild is celebrating their ruby anniversary next year, and calling for red and white quilts for the exhibition. The hardest part of two colour quilts is to find a good selection of prints with a good match of the colours, so I would be looking for designs with as few fabrics as possible.

The second design would work with a limited number of red, red and white, and probably a ...

This series was started when I wondered what might happen when the corners of Nine Patch pieced blocks met to create a secondary design, and sometimes leaving five blank blocks in the centre of the original blocks.

In these two designs the bows are where the four corners meet, and the blank spaces are left plain so the quilting can be the feature. That means that all three layers in Electric Quilt can be put to good use!

Very basic nine patch blocks, but not the usual sort of use of colour placement.

Interesting!

If ever I get all the unfinished projects, and the planned projects, finished, I will be making quilts with some low contrast fabrics like the designs in this project file.

Love the second design today.

These designs use just one very basic block, the basic Nine Patch, which is simply nine squares stitched together to make a square block. The designs could be made with just two fabrics, or one rather plain light background fabric with contrasting dark scraps.

I love the border of these designs too … simply 5 narrow strips of five different fabrics which includes the dark fabric used in the blocks, with the darkest of the fabrics used as the binding.

This project file is the result of a thought I had at about 3am one morning, when I am at my my creative. However, that was one of those thoughts I actually remembered when I woke up at a more reasonable hour.

The thought was to draft the corners of 9P blocks so that they met other blocks with identical corners to create a pattern independent of the other five squares in the 9P block. The corner designs stand out better in the first of these two designs, but become more a part of the overall design in the second ...

Electric Quilt Library blocks with a couple of modifications, and though I sometimes leave the two files using the same blocks, this one with a straight setting, the other on point, untouched for months, I kick myself for not opening them more often because I love pretty much every quilt design.

Today’s designs have only a minor change, but I would find it hard to choose which one to make.

I am fascinated at how these blocks have come together.

The second design is rather boring by comparison. Note that all blocks are basic pieced 9 patch blocks.

Interesting.

Can anyone guess what song the name for this project file came from?

I like the second design very much!

Interesting way to link a heap of identical blocks.

I like the second design!

Interesting! Very basic blocks on point.

Love the second one!

Wow! Very interesting.

Second one interesting too.

A very interesting design.

I opened this project file after letting it rest in peace for several years as I recently noticed a reference to the red and white exhibition of quilts several years ago.

I am not as impressed by the second design.

Very interesting, though not a lot of room for the quilting to attract a lot of attention.

Very nice! A little bit more applique, and more visible quilting.