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Many Australian native plants can survive drought conditions, but they look forward to the break of droughts just like Aussie people, especially those who live in the country areas and provide food for those who live in the more built up areas.

The best flowers visible from my garden this year  were a couple of gum trees over our back fence, one with red flowers, one yellow..

In the second design the corners are different … I couldn’t decide which one I liked best, so left  them as they were. A real quilt made like this could be used with ...

The 9 patch blocks in this project file  are put together with simple straight piecing, though  the pieces are rather small.  The size of the pieces make the blocks look much more complex than they are.

My favourite today is the second design with blocks which appear darker in the corners creating a diagonal light square in the centre. In a real quilt that could be emphasized by quilting straight lines around the square, ignoring the shape of the blocks.

Sometimes I have crazy ideas, like what if I select a random collection applique  block designs, and a random collection of pieced block designs for a new project file?

So I did … Jeparit Jewels  and some 9P stars.

I should have limited the number of designs in each of the block collections, but I didn’t.

After the first design came together I had to add fabric … and based the colours on the applique collection rather than the bright used in the stars.

So far, interesting!

I am not too sure if the  shapes of the applique will work well ...

Might need some cool colours over the next few days to  take my mind away from the  increasing temperatures outside, though it is not going to be as hot as it has been over the last couple of weeks … the last couple of days have been quite nice and have given us a spell in between the hot spells.

I like the first design even if it does have pointy stars in the centre. The colours appeal to me even though I am not usually a fan of blue. Note the quilting lines which outline the block which has been ...

Lovely fresh green! That is something we haven’t seen a lot of in the past year, but some parts of the country had rain overnight … probably the clouds which passed over us yesterday and dropped nothing!

My farmer father told me his favourite colour was green … it meant that the crops were growing and there was feed for the sheep. Made sense to me!

The blocks in these designs are all based on the same rather intricate Star block, but with lot of the contrast colours removed or bleached.

In these two designs the outer blocks are similar, but ...

Nice to see some greenery amongst the pink and purple … looks like a colour scheme for a garden!

A very interesting collection of blocks a in a great layout. Definitely my favourite today!

This project file has designs which I think of as something different every time I flick past any of the designs. They are certainly eye catching!

I wonder if the designs would be as eye catching in pretty colours… something which would be interesting to play with sometime!

My favourite is the first one.

This is a mixture of three or four different block collections so far, and I haven’t quite made up my mind if I have enough variety yet. I am thinking that there is at least one more which should be included.

I love the second design in the project file, though it took a few more than that to get the colours in the right places in the blocks from different projects.

The thing I am trying out is the background fabrics, two fabrics with a very subtle difference. I have tried it before, but I am hoping to ...

Interesting … and in one of my favourite colours.

I am looking forward to being old so I can wear purple!

I like to have at least two colour strips around the edge of the blocks in a quilt, at least an inch or two of one, then a contrast binding. That is the minimum for me, and most times I use two before the binding.

I might have to add some narrow borders tot he designs waiting in this project file.

A very interesting design in one of my favourite colours.

I have been dressmaking over the last few weeks, making up clothes which have been cut out and waiting for further attention for about 18 months, and this colouring featured in several items.

Another very interesting design! It is going to be hard to pick a favourite today!

The one above could be made much smaller by simply leaving out the outer row of all light blocks.

The next one is something a bit more modern …

… it might fit in a modern art exhibition, but not really anywhere near my ...

I wish my real garden was as neat and tidy as the virtual garden! The real one is also looking a bit sun burned too.

At least my virtual gardens survive the Aussie summer looking green and healthy, and don’t require water every few days.

Happy New Year!

First day of a new year and it is the middle of the week already!

Usually the middle of the week is when I share some Log Cabin quilt designs … but today being the beginning of the year I would do something different to celebrate the new year.

It has been a long time since I have played with deigns of medallion quilts … quilts which start with a central block, then a variety of borders until it reaches the size required.

The two pieced borders in the design above are from the Electric Quilt Block Library, the ...

I love playing with complex blocks by whiting out some of the design and replacing it with quilting motifs of the original complex block design.

Wow!! I love the second design.

A nice way to say goodbye to the old year … wishing you all a happy new year with family and friends.

Very interesting design, and I like the large print fabrics for borders.

I love the way the pieced blocks have become part of a very different border design. I should try that sort of thing more often.

Seven patch blocks set on point make some very intriguing designs.

Of all the pieced blocks I have found these have got to be the most interesting, but if you decide to make one you need a really good day after a good nights sleep, with no interruptions, and plenty of coffee, not just when piecing teh blocks, but when you are putting the blocks together.

Lots of small half square triangles can make some stunning designs … like today’s two designs.

I have used a background fabric and two contrast, but one or two extra contrast fabrics could be used.

A very different colour scheme for me, but I like it.

I love rather complex block deigns which give me a chance to eliminate pieces to make blocks which link together to make some intriguing quilt designs.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day … we certainly did, surrounded by extended family, some of whom I was looking down on when I last saw them, but are now looking down on me, new members and in-laws of we had only seen at a wedding!

Most of the younger generation came dressed ready to spend time in the pool, though at least a couple of a slightly older generation didn’t have their togs, but went in anyway, but had to refrain in the last hour so they didn’t have to wear wet clothes on the ...

The darker the sky, the better the stars shine.

No stars in the second design, but the gold and white shine anyway.

When looking at Christmas lights in daylight we do not see the colours or the sparkle of the stars.

Could be a single bed quilt … or a wall-hanging.

Need to experiment a bit with the border colours, but I like the results so far to keep playing.