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Traditional style, Aussie version.

I love the second design!

This project file has been sitting in my Electric Quilt library for far too long.

The blocks have been there, along with sampler quilts, but no virtual designs, until this morning.

Only have to find some quilting motifs now.

It is very interesting to see Aussie native flowers in such pretty colours. The real colours are usually red, gold with grey green with red/brown sandy background.

So pretty, as opposed to the usual stunning red flowers with black centres, and dull green leaves spread over dust!.

I love this mixture of pieced background filling in spaces around applique blocks.

I love the second design!

The first design does not look like the colours of Australia’s native Sturt Desert Pea, but the shapes are very much like the flowers, and as far as I know this species only comes in red, though there may be some whites ones.

The second design is more like you will find in out back areas. That is the dinkum Aussie colouring.

Happy Australia Day!

I love it!

The background colour is a bit dark in the second design.

Needs to be washed out until it becomes pale grey perhaps.

Not Australian colours, but would love to see our wildflowers mutate into these colours.

I could have an Aussie coloured front garden, and a purple back garden!

The shapes are inspired, but the colours are not … the flowers represented in todays designs come in reds, not pink and purple.

The colours are more English cottage garden, and i had a lot of fun playing with the colours, and my hands didn’t get dirty once, unlike the real garden outside.

Most of the flora which inspired these designs does not grow with fresh green leaves and with pretty coloured flowers. Our most obvious flora comes in bright reds, yellows and oranges, though hidden away in the bush there are some flowers which come in the prettier colours of flowers in other countries. Those bright colours often appear in the same flowers

I am a gardener, but not a plant breeder, but I thought I would try adding some pretty colours to the shapes of our flowers. Many of them look like foreigners in their new hues!

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.

This project file has a lot of flowers which are supposed to represent native Australian plants, but as I am not a great artist they are rather simplified depictions of the real deal.

I have also played with the colours. There are a wide variety of colours in the Aussie bush, but there are a lot of very strong colours in the red, orange and yellow range which don’t mix well with some of the softer pastels, while others come in a wide range of colours and shades in nature.

I prefer softer colours in the bedroom, but love ...