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Sashing is something quilters use to separate pieced or applique blocks, especially in sampler quilts, but I think they can be the feature part of a quilt design too.

I love the second design … I am tempted to play with colours in this one, but that will not happen over the next week … too many other things happening in life!

I don’t know too many quilters who don’t fiddle with fabric every chance they get, and I think most of us get a little fidgety if we go too long without touching our fabric stash!

All the designs in this project file would be fairly fiddly to make up, but I guess it would give us an excuse to fiddle with the fabric.

Interesting design and interesting colours in the first design. Yesterday’s designs were very feminine, but these have at least a masculine touch in both blocks and colours.

My favourite for today is the second design.

A very interesting first design.

Ditto the second design!

My favourite of the two is the first one.

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!

Very interesting collection of block designs … especially the pyramids with floral clouds!

Lovely!

Another lovely one.

I think the applique is a bit too much in the design above.

I like the last one … just enough applique, so the logs are an important part of the design, and there is room to show off some quilting.

I quite like the designs in this project file, but the title leaves a lot to be desired!

I like the first design because there is more space for quilting to shine, but I like the effect of the centre in the second design.

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.

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.

I challenged myself to go through all my Electric Quilt project files and use the designs which have been waiting for years for their day in the limelight. Many of the files I am targeting have not been opened for two years … and often more! When I do open them I often add more quilt designs for future reference, or sometimes change the fabrics and save them in a new project file.

I like the second design, and suspect that there are many more in this project that I like as much, or more than this one.

I like the four subdued pieced blocks around the centre. I think they add a lot of interest to the design.

Love the second design … more of the subdued colour blocks!

I don’t think I would like a dark quilt on my bed, but I love these designs anyway.

My favourite is the second one … even if I didn’t like it on my bed I could put in a spare bed!

I like the contrasts in this project file … the pale pieced blocks in the corners calm down what could be a rather busy looking design.

In the second design I like the way the contrast background in the centre square creeps outside the square.

Soft and pretty, like Aunty Flo’s tatted lace.

The second is also pretty and dainty, and I think it might be my favourite of the two designs.

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 ...

Baker’s Dozen is one of my favourite project files. I was delighted with the contrast in the fabrics when I started playing, and still love the contrast. I love the green and gold colours but finding the right background took a while. I was thinking that I would use brown but it didn’t quite achieve what I was hoping for … but black did!

I like them both … the whole project file is full of favourites.

Looks like a rogue block found its way into the first design … perhaps I should have used one of them in each side.

A bit more variety in the blocks for the second design.