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Dear, Dear it’s Quilted 31 from Virtual Quilter

I love seeing the backs of quilts, and whole cloth quilts. This design is a compromise. Make a few blocks with a rather plain background, use lots more of the background to make the quilt bigger, and quilt in the blocks you couldn’t be bothered making!

I love the second design!

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Dear, Dear it;s Quilted 29, 30 from Virtual Quilter

Small blocks, large quilt leaves lots of spaces to play with design, including some plain spaces for quilting to feature.

Lots of quilting, not a lot of tiny pieces.

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Dear, Dear it’s Quilted 27, 28 from Virtual Quilter

Fifty three little applique blocks, plus lots of quilting, make a large quilt!

These designs were inspired by Dear Jane quilts, with lots and lots of little pieced blocks to make large quilts, but the blocks were all different designs. I thought it might be more interesting to make more of the each of the blocks so they could make a less scrappy looking quilt.

Lots more little blocks, all pieced this time, and still lots of room for quilting.

I love both of these even though they are very different.

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Dear, Dear, Dear 41, 42 from Virtual Quilter

Interesting. In brighter colours it would look like somebody was celebrating something.

I like the second one, though I have just noticed one block should have been replaced … but looking again, I would replace all the other blocks in corresponding places with the one that shouldn’t be there.

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Dear, Dear, It’s Quilted 25, 26 from Virtual Quilter

Love the spaces left for quilting.

Maybe a bit too much space for quilting in the second design.

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Dear, Dear it’s Quilted 23, 24 from Virtual Quilter

Smaller blocks means lots more piecing, but a lot of scope for playing with blocks to create interesting designs.

Also adds more variety to the quilting motifs based on the blocks.

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Dear, Dear, Dear 39, 40 from Virtual Quilter

Small blocks in these designs, so there are a lot of them in large quilts.

I think I prefer the first one, but it is a close contest between these two!

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Dear, Dear it;s Quilted 18, 19, 20 from Virtual Quilter

When I added quilting motifs to the Dear, Dear, Dear project, I had to change the background for the quilting lines to show up clearly in Electric Quilt … and I like it!

Second design is interesting.

I like the last design, but I think my favourite of these three designs is the first one.

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Dear, Dear, Dear 36, 37, 38 from Virtual Quilter

Not the best background fabric, but an interesting design.

Like the second one despite the background fabric.

I think I might find some time to change the background fabric in this project file … at least doing a few at a time when I am sharing them.

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