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I want to add lots of quilting motifs to this project file, but am finding that less is better.

I haven’t got the right colour thread either … though most times I would use a colour which blends in to the background, but  try to use more contrast on virtual quilts.

Time to retreat from the mad world for a few minutes to inspect  some Log Cabin quilt designs.

I love the first two designs, but  my favourite for today is not included in those two.

Not too sure what to think of the diagonal design of the third. one.

Number four is my favourite … a combination of rings and diamonds!

I also like the last one for this week’s retreat, but there will be more mid week, next week.

All designs use  36 identical blocks, and there are still heaps in the project file for later on.
 

Dad’s favourite colour was green, Mum’s was purple. 

They also  attract bees  and butterflies into gardens.

I didn’t have favourite colours until I put these two together.

I think I should look for a green between the one in the background of these two designs.

The first is rather dusty, like my house, and all the others within  miles … no rain for months!

Then  comes my favourite for the day …. Love the vertical cross with the diagonal cross blocks around it.
 

It is nice to see some healthy green … it has been a very hot and dry summer around here.

I love this project file …  with the green Brook Blocks and  flowers of the Bottlebrush  shrubs which manage to survive drought conditions.
  

This is the last of this project file.                   

There are aa lot of designs I have saved into a new project, and will share them later.

Before then I am making some minor changes, not including fabric changes.

The main change is to replace the half blocks with solid fabric around the edge with a half square of fabric instead of pieced logs.

There are a lot of designs ready and waiting for the minor change … half of them were waiting to appear in the current file.

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!

Very deep purple , very bright green. Not a combination I had ever thought of. Had thought of similar, but usually a  bit lighter.

I didn’t intend dog faces to appear in the two designs, but they did!

At least they don’t bark all day and all night.

Enough with the dogs, how about some pointy bits.

Not too sure that I like the last one … looks a bit weird!

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 ...