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Interesting!

Another interesting design.

Love pansies growing in a garden, and love them in this design and the collection of blocks I am playing with to create the quilt designs. This is one of the few applique project files in which I use quilting motifs not related to the applique blocks.

Love the first design, but the second one is my favourite of today’s pair.

So, so pretty!

I think I write that every time I open this project file to share a couple of designs!

So, so beautiful!

I love the second design!

I like the first design, but I had to keep playing , not just with the design, but also the blocks. The two variations of border blocks are similar as I have used over and over again, though with different flowers.

I started working on quilting motifs, but also kept playing with border ideas.

The first sampler shows the flower and the blocks which grew from that flower.

Then I started playing with borders.

I am still playing with the border designs, and will show you some more tomorrow.

On point setting, quilting motifs based on applique blocks filing empty spaces.

That’s the way I like to see quilts.

What I don’t like seeing are pieced and applique blocks quilted over with an unrelated motif which does nothing to show off the block designs.

Love that circle which is visible around the centre.

Love the almost invisible sashing in these designs, with very visible sashing becoming a feature of the overall layout.

It would be a lot of work to make, but worth the effort if you had the right space to show it off.

More work to make the second, but it would be very impressive.

Pretty colours.

Both designs would need some background filler quilting, my choice would be cross hatch.

Very nice!

Interesting that the green in the borders take away some of the prettiness.

A very nice start!

Where I use applique designs as quilting motifs there are lots of spaces left between those motifs. Those background spaces would be filled with filler such as cross hatching in a thread to match the background The applique outlines may also be done it matching thread, but could be done in a low contrast thread.

First lesson learned is that I don’t like the long skinny leaves near as much as the short leaves, and the two do not mix well.

Not impressed with the border. Note to self … change it! Love the design inside the borders though.

Much better border on the second design, and the space inside the border is OK too.

Very interesting design.

Nice arrangement for a smaller quilt.

Very interesting, though not a lot of room for the quilting to attract a lot of attention.

Very nice! A little bit more applique, and more visible quilting.

The first design for the day is a nice one, ….

… but I love the second one.

New bocks, new project file, and still searching fabric files for the perfect combination of fabrics, though I should have considered different colours. However, these are my favourite colours.

I love the second design, and the block collection is still growing, as at this point there were no border blocks, but they are coming.

I have been a bit slow to use new block collections as I get them started, and I have decided that I should try to add a new project file twice a month, every month for the year. I probably have enough unused block collections to ...

Fiddling!

More fiddling, and now I have a new block in this project file to fiddle with. I was going to use it in this design but it didn’t really look right.

The quilting motifs look very regimental in layout, thankfully softened by the applique.

I like the second design.

Oops! Quilting motif in one corner didn’t get rotated!

Oh, so pretty.

Too pretty for words.

Very dainty.

More blocks, lots of detail, and I think this design is one which will remain forever virtual.

A very neat and tidy formal garden with an interesting layout, and no weeds!

I am not in love with the overall combination of colours, but I love the design.

Love the design above, and I am interested in what it might look like with a colour update, but at this time of the year I am not getting a lot of play time at the computer. Something to add to the list of things to do in 2023.

Second designis also interesting, and would like time to play with the contrast as well as the colouring.