What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Interesting.

Very restful colours.

Interesting.

My favourite for today is the second one, especially the border and the applique blocks.

Very interesting.

This project emerged after I set pieced block designs into the sashing of a quilt, and decided that I would try to draw up some blocks especially to use as sashing, as well as using any or every pieced block design!

The curves are doable by machine, but the points would be easier to do by hand.

I love the shape created by the sashing around the blocks, perfect for framing quilted motifs. Which leads me to think I need to follow up that thought!

Love the first design, though the colours may not look like autumn colours to many of you around the world, but here in Australia our autumn colours are usually dusty, unless we get some early rain.

The blue in the second design isn’t from any flowers, it is the clear skies when we are hoping for that opening rain.

Wow!

Two very interesting designs but it is easy for to pick a favourite … the first one.

Interesting!

Interesting, with lots of room for some interesting quilting!

Interesting design, which includes some spaces framed especially to show off some quilting.

Another interesting design.

Ooopsie! I scheduled posts for this week with several appointments, visitors, etc., and forgot that the busiest day was Wednesday, and so forgot to schedule Log Cabin designs for the middle of the week.

Thankfully life starts slowing down today, with very little on the calendar for next week.

Interesting.

Wow!

PS Ooops … didn’t hit the publish button yesterday! Sorry!

This is just one of many ways a square with a quarter circle can be arranged to make a 4P square, then put together to make a quilt design.

Many years ago I did some multiplying on a sheet of paper to work out how many ways a 4P square could be arranged, then kept multiplying until I had the number of ways four of those square could be put together.

The number reached level of annual government wages of public servants in most countries around the world. I decided that I would not spend the rest of my life ...

I don’t think I would enjoy making up any more than four or five of the pieced blocks in this design, but would be happy to make up to four of each of the five pieced blocks … which just leaves the eight applique blocks.

I like the second design, but if I had to choose one of these two to make up I would make the blocks for the first, and add the applique border from the second.

I love it … although it is a bit blue. I do like the quilting design as it is clean and simple, and would be suitable to use with most of our modern waddings which are much less likely to fall to pieces inside a quilt than the waddings used a fifty to hundred years ago.

I would use less quilting in the border though.

Love the second one too, but some quilting in the border would be a good idea!

Talking about quilting, here is a link to an article about markers to use on fabric.

Electric Quilt was up to version 5 when I first became a user, and have upgraded as soon as possible with each new version, and loved the way the program has progressed.

Learning to use each upgrade has been a challenge with each step, and I still have lots to learn, but I am still amazed at some of the designs I did way back then.

It is one of those days when I am not going to be able to pick a favourite.

Love the colours in the first, the shape created by the blocks around the centre block ...

Love the first, and so does the cat.

I was thinking of a small quilt when I designed the second one, but I think it would look great on a double, queen or king size bed with that large centre block, and it would be worth playing with other big blocks.

Love the last, and so does the cat.

Two designs from one of my favourite project files today.

Not too sure about the blue … partly because it is not my favourite colour … but I think it would look better with more blues amongst the border scraps.

I like lots of things about today’s designs … but not the colour.

I like the large print used in some of the blocks and the border, and the contrast is OK.

I especially like the dark, light, large print, light, dark combination of strips which make up the border.

I keep finding stuff hidden away in Electric Quilt files … some of them dating back to 2013!

Many of them only have four or five designs, but his one has 24. Most of them are the basic blocks twisted and turned to see how they fit together, and these are interesting, but not show stoppers.

The second design is the basic block used in this series, in one of many possible colourings.

There are hundreds of ways to arrange the sixteen squares of the Drunkards Path pieces to create symmectrical blocks … these two designs are just two of them. Then ...

A one block design, with bits and pieces ignored or recoloured to create different designs.

I like the gentle curves in the centre of the block.

I love it. In fact, I LOVE IT!

Love this one too.

And this one! Three out of three ain’t bad.

Colours of Australia … red and sandy soil, with some green starting to grow. Even trees in areas burnt out in the last two months are showing touches of green.

Interesting design.

Very interesting.

The Drunkard’s Path design caught my attention the first time I saw a block. Then I saw a sampler quilt with 15 different arrangements of the two shapes in the blocks, and I already had a few sketches of ones not included in that sampler.

I did some maths one day, and the total number of possibilities is a very long number, and that is for a block with 16 squares.

I know I will never find them all, but it is good fun playing, and I did work out a system for finding the best ones ...