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Pretty to look at, and pretty fiddly to make.

Just a thought … if we all made quilts as fiddly as these, we would save a lot of money spent on fabric!

I love both of these … maybe the second one is my favourite.

Interesting, and it would have matched my Mum’s house, and garden.

I like the second design! A lot!

Some interesting quilting motifs amongst some pretty applique designs.

I should have added more quilting motifs to the second design.

Love the first design for today.

Love the second one too … might be something to do with the colours …. my Mum’s favourite colour was purple, my Dad’s was green. My favourite colours are their favourite colours.

Very pretty, but would be very fiddly to make.

Second design is very pretty, and would be less fiddly to make, either because there are less blocks, or the blocks can be bigger for a larger bed..

Should have named this after my Mum … purple was her favourite colour.

Mmm! I didn’t turn all the quilting motifs around the right way … though perhaps I couldn’t decide which way was right!

I think I like the way it is on the right.

Interesting design, especially the quilting … simple, but very effective.

In the second design the quilting motif in the first is an applique design!

I love buildings with iron lacework around verandas and balconies, and enjoy dreams of seeing quilts, and maybe carpets made using variations of the designs used by the ironmongers.

The shapes also make great quilting motifs. I love the second design.

Pretty and purple designs today, but still flowery like yesterday’s designs.

Like yesterday, I cannot pick a favourite as I love them both, but I think I would enjoy making yesterday’s designs more than todays … cutting all those petals would drive me insane!.

Looks old fashioned to me, but I like old fashioned so that is ok.

Some rather fiddly blocks, and if it was a real old quilt it would have all been done by hand.

I like the first one best because there is more quilting being shown off.

Wow! So pretty! A great combination of applique and quilting.

I like that the blocks have room for quilting to shine without getting too mixed up with the colours.

Oh, so pretty!

I think I have made that comment many times, often about designs in this project file.

I think I love the second one just a little bit more than the second.

Only one border, and the whole quilt has only a few applique blocks, and the other blocks are quilted. I think i would applique the whole of the outer row of blocks leaving just four blocks to be just quilted.

Only parts of one border are applique, the rest of the two borders are quilted only. With all the designs in this project file the quilt only areas could be appliqued, but I like to see some areas of any quilt with quilting designs which are based on both pieced and applique designs filling some of the blank spaces.

I love fiddling with fabric, making clothes, rag dolls, Christmas tree decorations, even a Christmas tree or two, as well as fiddling with designs for all of the above, and beads and buttons …. a fiddling addict!

Sometimes I actually finish a real quilt, but as I prefer hand work that is not an every day occurrence!

Very dark, but very interesting.

I wonder if these designs would be as interesting if they faded a lot.

Even darker, but I like it!

A mix of applique block designs. I usually use just one floral design, but in this project file I have mixed up the floral designs and all their variations.

I am even mixing up the colours of threads used in the quilting motifs, which are based on applique designs.

Interesting.

I like the second one best, but both need some more play time.

I don’t mind doing applique, but I think I would be tempted to use an embroidery machine to do the applique on this one! Using my machine that would mean the finished blocks would only make a knee rug instead of a king size quilt.

Perhaps my challenge for the year ahead should be to sit down at the embroidery machine and practice making small blocks, then learning to reposition the fabric to do large blocks. (Note that I didn’t say what year ahead.) In the meantime I should practice turning the whole block into an embroidered coaster ...

The first design looks rather old fashioned, and would fit in an old fashioned bedroom in an old fashioned house.

The second is not quite so old fashioned but would still look nice in the old fashioned bedroom.

Love the first design.

Would love the second one too, but I made a mistake. Can you pick it?

Thank goodness in Electric Quilt I don’t have to use a quick-un-pick to undo the mistake, but will leave this one there to remind me that I should always check before selecting designs to use as a virtual quilt.