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November 15, 2024
Elevenses 79, 80 from Virtual Quilter

I love the first design today, but can see something I want to change … not a big change, but it needs to be changed.

The second design is boring when compared to the first one!

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October 15, 2024
Wedding Fans OP 59, 60 from Virtual Quilter

Interesting!

The second design is also interesting but my favourite today is the first design.

I have started scribbling a new applique version of Double Wedding Rings … now all I need an hour or two to sit at the computer and draw the blocks before I can use them in quilt designs.

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October 11, 2024
Wedding Fan 57, 58 from Virtual Quilter

If I had started quilting about 10 years before I did I would have made one of these designs to loan to newly wed children, nieces and nephews, for a month or so after their big day, adding the names and dates of each wedding … but by the time I started quilting some had already tied the knot, and now the next generation are making plans, and I am behind in making quilts for them to keep.

Maybe one of the next generation will become a quilter, and they can backdate the names to their great grandparents!

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July 17, 2024
Logs in an Outback Garden 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from Virtual Quilter

Introducing a project file with several variations of Log Cabin blocks along with a mixed bag of applique designs based on some of Australia’s native flora. It has taken about a month to sort out colours for the background Log Cabin blocks, but the colour of the flowers was easier as many of the varieties of flora native to this country might have different colour flowers, and most of them have red included in the family.

Some of the pieced backgrounds designs would look OK without the applique added, like the one above and below, but others, like the ...

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February 23, 2024
V for Vera Floral and Star 1, 2 from Virtual Quilter

I decided I should start mixing up more pieced blocks with applique blocks.

The first design in this project file is all pieced blocks with some applique on four of them. Doesn’t need a lot of applique to make an impression!

In the second design the blocks are either pieced or applique, and now there is some quilting lines.

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