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Take a plain sheet, use it as the top layer of a quilt sandwich, pick a contrast thread and start quilting. The blank areas in the designs in this project file I would fill with a background filler such as stippling.

I started this project file ages ago, but it went into hiding on my computer, but now it has been found I am playing with the block designs and adding more quilt designs.

I love the second design, but would add cross hatch as the background filler in this design.

Love it!!!

Needs a little background filler in a thread to match the background.

I like the second design, but it is boring compared to the first design above.

I like quilting to have feature shapes in a design, with boring fill in patterns to fill the background, similar to the way pieced and applique designs are usually separated by a contrast background fabric.

The background filler in the second deign I would do with a thread matching the background, while the more decorative shapes would be in a contrast colour.

The design above is the last in this project series which was started a long time ago, and one day I should make myself start a new, and better, project with the same theme.

Very interesting!

I would be tempted to embroider the quilting designs, but either leaving it as quilted or embroidered I would do background quilting in a thread to match the background.

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.

Dainty!

Still dainty, but with heavier borders. This is the one I would make for our bed … if we didn’t already have three queen size quilts.

Very pretty!

I love the colours in this project … and they are in a lot of other projects in my Electric Quilt files.

The designs in this project file are very feminine ,and very pretty.

By the way, the spoon which inspired this series of designs is the spoon which is in my coffee jar, the one I use to add sugar to my coffee every morning.

Nine applique blocks plus lots and lots of quilting.

I like the second one … a bit more applique, less quilting.

I would be happy to see either of today’s designs on our bed, but the chances of that happening is very low … too many UFOs in storage!

Mmm! Might be happier to see the second design than the first, but only slightly.

Pretty intricate, and pretty and intricate!

I love the corners of the inner border!

Blue is not my favourite colour, but it looks OK with some pink and purple in this project file.

I do love having empty spaces to show off some quilting, and I prefer to not use feathers. I like feathers, but prefer to see formal designs with either bubbles, squiggles, straight lines or cross hatch filling in the background around both the formal quilting designs and the applique.

One thing I do not like is to see all over quilting which has no real relationship to the pieced or applique on the quilt top.

Lots of leaves on the first design!

Second deign has more room for quilting and so is my favourite for today.

Pretty and dainty … and very feminine!

I can’t think of many blokes I know who would choose this for their bedroom.

I love the second design!

Another variety of banksia, and some quilting motifs in coloured thread based on the applique designs.

I am enjoying playing with the scale of the flowers in these designs.

I like these block designs as applique, especially if it becomes trapunto style, and as quilting motifs. As the latter they make a nice change from feathers!

I would do the background filler in thread matching the background, and do a on point grid.

This project file must have got lost under a pile of ironing … I played with it for a while, but then hid it away several years ago! Amazing what you find when you are looking for something else.

Not many designs in the file yet, but now I have it open I will spend some time playing! I love both designs, and the colours too.

Ooops! I got carried away playing with the designs, and forgot to press the schedule button, which means you get two posts today.

Love the first design, though I haven’t added any quilting motifs, but that is because I would keep it very simple, in black thread on the black background.

Love the second design for today too … and I have had a thought that I would make two tops and add wadding to both and quilt, then tie the two together back to back so it is fully reversible. That would give me the problem of working out which side should be every time I made the bed!

I got sick of picking out blocks to use, so just added quilting motifs and love the results.

It would be interesting to see a lot more quilts with less piecing and applique and more quilting based on the pieced and applique blocks. Something to consider when I start another quilt!