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This project file uses the same blocks as yesterday’s designs, but with different fabrics and set on point.

Not many of the blocks are repeated in these particular quilt designs, but I love that they look so different with the different fabrics and the different setting.

I am not a great fan of pieced quilts, but I like these designs, influenced at least a little by the applique border.

Love the second one!

I actually managed to get quite a bit done in spite of the fact that we had a busy, busy Easter weekend! I went ahead and added a very small coping border between the main part of A-Tisket-A-Tasket and the red hst border. 

A-Tisket-A-Tasket getting a border or two

Very pretty, and would be pretty time consuming to make it up!

Oops, a bit of a booboo in the second design ,,, glad I don’t have to unpick it!

I like it.

Much more interesting!

Interesting.

The block in the corners of the main body of this design is a modification of Mexican Rose 2, found in the Electric Quilt Block library. It is probably the most used of all the applique blocks, and has been twisted, turned, expanded, reduced and pulled to pieces to create many modified blocks for use in many of the project files I have in my EQ file.

Love the second design, which features some other applique blocks which I have modified a few times.

All the designs in this project file look very washed out, which is what you would expect of real quilts as old as these designs!

The second one must have been bleached at some time. I think I was experimenting to see just how little contrast is needed to make the block designs interesting … at the time I was learning to draw pieced blocks by adding all the block designs I had scribbled on piles of paper to my EQ library.

So here we go, Coronacrazy borders are all stitched down and the top is complete!*whew  This one has been a long slog, in more ways than one. It was started in March of 2020 on a total whim, with the end result always being up in the air. In fact, the end product wasn't even of much concern until later. It was all about keeping busy-hands, mind, body and spirit.

Coronacrazy borders are on

Strawberries on a bed of chocolate, and the quilting looks abit like caramel topping drizzled over it all.

Pity I have already had breakfast … sounds like a delicious way to start the day, and strawberries are healthy food!

Love the second design.

Love it.

Love it!

I am watching our young satsuma plum tree like a hawk, but the rest of the birds haven’t found a way through the net … each day just a little more dark plum colouring, and just a little bit of softness … ready to pick and eat soon, and when I have had enough fresh, will start drying them. No need to make jam this year as a friend gave me buckets full last year when there were about three plums on our tree.

Love the design above, but there is a little problem near the corners

Love the second design, and there is no problem with the corners or anywhere else!

Nice.

A simple chane somehow made it a bit more exciting.

I have spent a lot of time playing with dirt in the garden over the last few years, in particular, over the last year. My garden is a lot less grand than the ones in my virtual quilts, but the weeds are much more impressive, but I keep dreaming that one day the weeds will be under control, or even eliminated altogether.

However, in the next twenty four hours I think I will have some flowers on a plant I have never grown in any of my ten gardens. It feels like I have just stitched the binding on a ...

The first design features quilting … just quilting … and I love it!

I love the second one too, simply because it is like nothing i have ever seen anywhere.

I like it!

More subdued, and I love it!

Wow! Sometimes I impress myself, even if nobody else is impressed. Love the design above.

I like the second one, but compared to the first it is a bit dull.

Lovely, but busy.

Love the second design!

I've been busy, busy. Trying to get lots of applique prep done over the last weekend while my daughter was away on vacation. It was waaay past time to pull out Coronacrazy and just get moving on it. While the centerpiece has been done since January, the only thing accomplished since that particular push was the foundation work for this applique border. Letting it sit around and gather dust was only making me feel guilty and even more apprehensive about how it was going to turn out.

Will have to stitch down the corners later

I'm slowly getting a little bit of quilting done on Bullseye Medallion. I say 'slowly', because it seems like I've been skipping every other night lately. Oh well. At least there's something happening with it even if it doesn't look like much!

Hand quilting Bullseye Medallion

Little doll quilts

I have sometimes thought I would make something using Clamshells, but thinking is a long way from actually starting. However, I have played with the shape occasionally, just to see if I could come up with something I just had to make.

I like the corners of the wide border in the second design more then the first, but more playtime is required.