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

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

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

I love the second one.

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.

Love the first design for today.

I wasn’t happy with the way my day started … no internet, so today’s post is rather late, but I had plenty of time to play with quilt designs while I tried to work out what was wrong, and wonder if it was something I did, or the internet in general. Still don’t really know, but I am attached to the web again.

Designs like these would make it really worthwhile to make the bed every morning!

Red and white together looks stunning, but not something I would like in my bedroom. My favourite design today is the first one.

However, a lot of sporting fans barrack for teams who wear red and white, so there may be a lot of people who would love a red and white quilt on their bed.

A puzzle for today …. find the lines which should be changed. I love the overall design, but have noticed a few of the lines based on pieced blocks which are not quite the way I intended them to be.

This is an old project file, and was done before I had access to wide fabrics, so added a small border to cover up some of the joins I would have to include to get a king size quilt.

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!

The design above was a mistake. The design below was what I intended to do.

I much prefer the first one! Sometimes mistakes are beneficial.

Which one do you prefer?

Once I had found some red and white pieced designs for yesterday’s post, I thought I should start an applique project. The first design above is not the first design I did, but I did a lot of changes to every design and the order got mixed up quicker then the fabric choices.

I found that the hardest part was finding assorted red and white fabrics as some are too pink, some have too much yellow and look orange, but I eventually found a small collection of red and white fabrics which had similar reds, but with enough variety ...

I love iron lacework on old buildings, and love the idea of quilts made with similar designs.

Not a lot of applique in the second design, even the border is quilted only.

Very nice.

Also very nice!

Cheerful colours, interesting design.

This project file was started while demonstrating at a quilt exhibition a few years ago. I selected some blocks, added colours, then started designing quilts. Spent more time talking to friends old and new than concentrating on playing with the blocks, but did spend some time talking about the Electric Quilt program and what is can do with those who wanted more information. I know at least one of them is now using the program.

All of the above plus some quilting!

More Irish tangles, with both applique and quilting included. The pieced blocks are easy, the applique is only a small portion of the quilt.

Love the first …

…. and the second!

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.

I always have to look hard at the iron lace decorating old buildings, and have been guilty of driving around the block to find a parking spot so I can have a better look, and maybe take a photo, several times.

The designs in this project file, and several others I have filed away, have some applique, and some quilting motifs based on the applique designs in the project along with some blank spaces. In a real quilt I would fill in those blank spaces with quilting in a thread colour which matches the background fabric, while the quilting design ...