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Who needs a dozen, or two, different colours to make an applique quilt!

One hint if you choose red as one of the colours … make sure you only bleed on the red fabric!

However, make sure you wash the red fabrics very well before cutting to stop the fabric bleeding.

This will be my last post as the Virtual Quilter here on WordPress. I am looking for a new home for the quilt designs, but have other issues to deal with so will leave a note here when I can find the new home and the other issues are dealt ...

New project to start a new month. It feels as though half a year has gone in a day

I love the second design … will be fun to see what else I can do with iron lace and rose block designs.

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.
 

Peaceful colours … I like it.

I love the second design! Room for some interesting background quilting.

I designed these thinking of fabric applique tiles on a bed.

But what about ceramic tiles in the bathroom, or carpet tiles in the lounge or bedroom?

Or machine embroidered on curtains or clothing?

I love seeing old buildings with iron lace decorations, and would love to see new iron lace trims.

I also like playing with quilt designs with low contrast, and have a collection of projects featuring iron lace designs with low contrast.

The same blocks as other Electric Quilt blocks, but with some sashing.

I think my favourite today is the  first design, but it is a close call!

These designs would suit a very old bed style in a very old style bedroom.

I think I might start a new project file … keep the designs, but change the fabrics.

In my early playtimes with Electric Quilt I selected blocks from the EQ library, and kept rearranging them to see what happened.
 

I am still finding  interesting designs twenty years later!

Very little applique in the second design, but the quilting in contrast thread shows up well, with space for filler designs as well.

Very pretty in pink!

I think I should have done the quilting designs in pink rather than blue thread.

Love the border design, and may have to play with some more designs before I close Electric Quilt for the day.

Second design is interesting.

Wow! Butterfly swarm!

I know bees swarm, not too sure about butterflies swarming.

Love the second design!

These would be a challenge to make, but would be nice on a bed.

I like the slightly more open design of the second.

Interesting, though with all those spinning flower heads I would quilt the background with straight lines.

I love the second design … not so much spin!

It has been cloudy for several days, with more coming, so it is nice to be able to share something with some nice bright flowers while I am waiting for the spring bulbs to appear and get ready to flower in a couple of months time.

My favourite for today is the second one.

I often played with my Mum’s button box, but there was no bead box in the family,  but now I have a virtual bead collection to play with.

The best bit about virtual beads … I can’t spill them all over the floor!

Both of todays designs are  very pretty! I love the second design.

The colours are restful, and at the end of a very exciting day the bride and groom may need some rest.

It feels like winter is close, so this week I will share designs for wedding themed quilts … newly weds just might appreciate them, though it is a bit late to star making one if the wedding is in the near future.

If I had started quilting earlier in life, and had the bright idea early enough, before my siblings and cousins had married, I could have made a family wedding quilt, to be passed on from one couple to another, giving me time to make each couple an individual quilt.

I love the muted colours in these two designs, and ...

One of the more disappointing collection of blocks I have in my collection, but I like the results when I put them together …

… mainly because the variety of the block designs is limited.

I like the single bed design best of these two designs.

Strawberry season is over, not that I have had success with growing them since moving into this area. Maybe putting them in a pot in a protected spot where we can protect it from birds. And keep a good supply of icecream in the freezer.

I have just remembered that amongst the projects waiting for attention there is a small strawberry themed quilt. Perhaps I should make that one of this years projects to complete.

In the meantime, I can enjoy playing with strawberry blocks in virtual quilt designs.