What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Pretty dainty!

I wonder how many petals I would have to cut out to make either of these? Printing on fabric would be an option, or better still, machine embroidery.

Mostly brown with a touch of green of plants that are looking forward to some winter rain … that is autumn here in Australia.

My favourite today is the second design as I like the change of blocks around the centre blocks..

I love the strip borders with tangled corners, but would like to be able to redraft the applique borders to be more symmetrical, perhaps by removing the inner applique border around the centre block, or making it wider.

I love the second design … the applique is minimal, but well balanced, and there is a lot or room for some fairly simple quilting to shine. I would avoid too many busy feathers, but would use the fan shape used in the applique with a fair bit of background filling.

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!.

Oh, so pretty!

I think these designs would make great machine embroidery designs … could be a fun experiment.

I think my favourite is the first one, but maybe not.

Love the first design for today.

Love the second one too … and I cannot pick a favourite.

I love the quilting designs in both of today’s virtual quilts.

In addition to the lines in blank areas of the quilt design I would outline quilt all the applique pieces.

Love the centre of the second quilt … particularly the quilting lines.

Ooops! Pity I missed a bit of quilting in the top row!

I had a glimpse of some antique quilts a week ago, and these designs would have blended in well.

I love the second one.

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.

I used to think that watching grass grow was pretty boring, but in recent years I have discovered it is scary as it grows so fast in the garden I started nearly 7 years ago that it can block a path in a week.

Having a body which doesn’t like bending much makes it worse, but there are some flowers which can usually show their heads from time to time makes it worth watching for them if the weeds allow.

New working week, and a new project file off to a flying start..

I think this project file will be more fun than all the project files I have started so far!

A project which has been waiting patiently in my Electric Quilt files to make a debut as a virtual quilt.

I am loving the designs I can create using the block collection I have put together.

An old favourite project file which gets overlooked because there are so many new ones to play with.

Perhaps I should change the colour scheme so it becomes new again.

I love banksia shrubs, and so do our native birds, and I am loving playing with the banksia blocks.

I would love to have a garden big enough to plant heaps of Banksias, along with lots of other Aussie native plants, but at least I can design virtual quilts with masses of Aussie plants.

Weather has been hot and muggy for a few days … feels a bit tropical!

Mmm … should have left the circle in the middle when I added four more pineapples.

The first design could be made as just a Log Cabin quilt, but with a lot of washed out colours in the light part of the Courthouse Steps blocks and a lot of all light blocks it makes a great background for some applique.

The second design would work with plain background applique blocks surrounded by all dark Log Cabin blocks.

I love the design above … most of the Log blocks are Courthouse Steps, with four Curved Logs in the corners.

Looks like a secret garden hidden behind some shrubs.

In the last one the garden is not so hidden ...

Pale and pretty!

The colours in these designs are more like an English country garden than the colours found in much of the Australian bush.

The shapes are based on Australian native flowers, but the colours have been softened to pretty pastels. A lot of our native flora are bright red, orange and yellow and often have very dark green or rather grey foliage, but there are some with pretty colour variations in contrast to the bright strong 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.

New month, new project file, which started when I was drawing the leaves and added the outer leaves flopping down a bit and meeting when I repeated four of them around the centre.

I like the second design, and like the floppy leaves alone to fill an otherwise empty space.