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Red is not my favourite colour, except  perhaps during the Christmas season, but I love this design!
 

Green is one of my favourite colours all through the year, and I love this design too.
 

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 ...

Winter sport finals are happening all around the country, and the local clubs have some teams in the grand finals today, and wearing red and white.

Also our state quilters guild is celebrating their ruby anniversary next year, and calling for red and white quilts for the exhibition. The hardest part of two colour quilts is to find a good selection of prints with a good match of the colours, so I would be looking for designs with as few fabrics as possible.

The second design would work with a limited number of red, red and white, and probably a ...

You would need your sunglasses on anywhere near this lot, day or night.

I love the layout of the first design.

Love the second one too!