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Very interesting design.

The blocks in this project file are based on designs I found in Electric Quilt library collections, most from Classic Applique, some from Classic pieced.. Every block has been modified, some just a little, some have had multiple surgeries. Some pieces from some applique blocks have been mixed up with pieces from other blocks.

Generations of quilt designers could shuffle the current collection of designs and still be designing new quilts, and probably still be shuffling the pieces in blocks to create new blocks. Of course, each generation of designers would have to use new fabric designs ...

I started with Fiddlebobs blocks, and added a handful of pieced blocks, not being sure what might happen with this mixture, but at least the first designs looks OK.

So far, so good!

Interesting design to start with, though my Mid Week Quilter’s Log Cabin Retreat is a day late. I am not too sure if my calendar or the clock is misleading me … got to be one of them!

The second design is exactly the same as the first, but with the colours reversed.

I am not too interested in the design above, but what if I reverse the colours again.

I love the change!

You will have to wait until I next open this project file to see what happens with the last design for today when the colours are ...

Very interesting!

Also very interesting. I like both of them.

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.

I have a friend who would love this because of the colours are worn by her favourite team. I love it because it is an interesting collection of pieced and applique designs.

Same blocks, different arrangement, and I still like it. Lots of room for quilting in the background areas.

That could almost be a pretty flower!

Interesting design above.

Crisscross design is also interesting!

Designs in this project file would be great for sports fans who barrack for the red and white teams.

My favourite for this week’s quilter’s is the first design above.

More Log Cabin design variations mid week, next week, so you can have a five minute coffee break looking at some quilt designs.

Interesting design, I like it!

Some quilting, but not a lot, but it would be enough to hold the layers together using some well bonded modern waddings.

Interesting.

Very restful colours.

The last few days have been bright, but with clear blue skies there has been no protection from the cold … perhaps some bright colours will make me feel warmer.

Love the second design!

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.

Interesting, though I keep turning my head to a 45 degree angle to see what the blocks look like on the straight!

I like the second one. Not my usual number of blocks in a design, but could be made with larger blocks to make a double or queen size quilt.

Interesting.

My favourite for today is the second one, especially the border and the applique blocks.

Time to retreat with a coffee … and I think the first design is a good one.

In this project file I create a design, then make a series of minor changes until I get sick of it, and design something new. I like the change from the first to the second one.

Time for a change! Interesting.

So is the next one.

Needing a change again, which will appear some time in a future mid week retreat.

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

PS Hopefully I will get them posted on time next week!

I love this mixture of pieced background filling in spaces around applique blocks.

I love the second design!

Very interesting, and rather likable!

Another interesting design. This project file has lots of interesting designs waiting for their day on the blog, and I like all of them.

I love the first design today.

Second design is interesting, though the colours could do with a change.

Wow! A bit of a tangle.

Same blocks with a twist.

I like the one above.

Like the one above more than the one above it!

The last one is my favourite for the day, and this weeks Mid Week Log Cabin Retreat.

That is all for this weeks Mid Week quilter’s Log Cabin Retreat … more next week.

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 ...

In this project file there are 15 blocks, all with identical corner triangles, with modified star designs in the centre diagonal square in the centre of 12 of them, one of them used in the border below.

I like both of these, and I think the first is my favourite, but don’t quote me on that!

Check out the sampler below.