What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

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!

Interesting.

Love the second design!

New project file, with new fabrics in new colours, and the original blocks which are being modified, but starting with just fabric colour changes.

I think I would like to make one of them, but cannot decide if I would put it on a bed, on a table, or a wall!

I love it!

Love the way the stars near the corners are framed … a nice contrast to the other blocks.

Christmas is approaching … a group of quilters yesterday spent more time discussing Christmas shopping than fabric shopping!

Very understated Christmas quilt, or a quilt that could be used all year round.

Still understated, but what a lot of space for some spectacular quilting!

Traditional Christmas Colours, but if they are favourite colours these could be used all year round.

Love the outer blocks in the second design!

My favourite sort of gingerbread … no messy kitchen, no crumbs!

To be honest, I love gingerbread, but dislike cooking and cleaning.

However, all the cutters required to make the gingerbread would make great Christmas Tree decorations.

Christmas trees are being brought home, or brought out of storage, and lights and decorations added around the world, reminding us that it is the season to be jolly.

From now until Boxing day I will be sharing quilt designs with a strong Christmas flavour, or simply in the red, white and green I prefer for my Christmas decorations.

Make one block, add borders, and you have a medallion quilt.

I love the second one.

I love old buildings with wrought iron lace around the roof line and the veranda. Bendigo is one place to see a great collection. The colours I have used in this series represent the fertile soil around Bendigo, and other areas where mining was important in the early settlement period, and the farming communities which replaced the miners.

My favourite today is the second design.

Notice the way the Wedding Ring blocks have rounded out the fan blocks … very interesting.

In the second design I love the tips of the fan blocks showing around the edge, caused by all the blocks being on point.

I love stained glass windows and would love to be able to create my own. In the meantime, I can play with designs for fabric versions.

Love the second design.

Sturt Desert Peas grow in deserts, and appear after rain to form a mat of foliage with the red flowers sitting well above the foliage. I have had them grow in my garden once, though my Mother had them grow every year in a bit of dirt held in place with an old tyre. We were not allowed to play in that little patch of dirt so just as well we had a whole farm to play in!

Love the second design … a garden bed I can only dream about!

Very dainty and feminine!

Very busy, but with a little room for quilting to share the limelight, and not all of them have been used yet. I need to spend a little bit of time concentrating on the quilting designs.

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.

Love it!

Love the first one, but love the second one more!

Very delicate. Quilts of this sort of colouring on a bed should have a bit sign in the room saying

DO NOT SIT ON THE BED. The blocks in this project file came from the Electric Quilt Block Library, but some of them got changed a little.

I like both of these designs.

Very interesting!

Very interesting, but maybe a bit too tangled up!

Love the design above.

Love the second design too, but in a real quilt some of the quilting motifs would be changed to filler designs … straight lines, cross hatch or stippling, and use thread matching the background for those areas, contrast thread for the remaining motifs.

Rather dainty!

I love the second design.