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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.

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.

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.

Three days ago I added two Floppy Petal designs … this project file was teh forerunner of that file, but I only did half a dozen designs then added more floppy petals.

I love the flowers, and I should try some of the blocks as machine embroidery. Project for the future sometime.

I was playing with a flower with 3 droopy petals, and tried adding more petals without spaces in between, and thought they looked a bit like a very pretty umbrella.

Floral umbrellas may not be waterproof, but they make pretty quilt designs, and without getting my hands dirty in the mud.

Monday today, washing day, so hopefully no rain!

I have been trying to find a name for these flowers for quite some time. Floppy Petals is the best I can come up with. Any ideas welcome.

Love the second design.

Aussie florals are anything but formal, but I have a lot of fun using them in formal designs. I don’t bother trying to prune them into formal shapes in the real world!

Love the second design!

Nice, but would need some quilting! I would use the centre block as the quilting design.

The second one would also need some quilting, but mainly just background fill.

All teh flower shapes are based on Australian native flowers, but the colours have mutated in my virtual world.

The second design is sort of a sampler, but all but one of the blocks have been repeated, most of them four times, one eight times.

Very dainty florals … and I like them.

I love flipping and turning block designs to see what happens, and most of the time I love the results, including the two designs above.

I should have used a lighter, slightly brighter background, but I love the design despite the colouring.

With the lighter brighter background the second design would be a wonderful place to show off some lovely quilting.

This series of designs was started as a challenge to myself, to design a large quilt with some of the blocks looking like pages of a botanica, with art work depicting plants, along with details of the leaves, flowers and seeds … and after about 15 years it has a long way to go … but at least I have the layout I like, and know how many pages, 24, of flowery pages I need.

My challenge for the next 12 months is to work at drawing those pages.

I challenge all of you who are learning to use Electric Quilt to ...