I started this project file with the intention of using blocks from the Electric Quilt Library without making any modifications. Up until this design I stuck to my original intention, but now things have started to change.
In the second design I have blacked out 4 squares in four blocks, and from now on I will be making changes!
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When I posted the first two designs from this project file yesterday I was happy with the block designs, and with the colours, but thought I could make the overall design better.
What if … I added sashing, but that didn’t appeal to me, so I have modified the sashing to the now you see it, now you don’t variety.
I changed the width of the sashing from the 2 inches I started with between the 12 inch blocks, to 0.5 of an inch, and used contrast fabric in only some of them!
The first design is the ...
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This project file began with a selection of applique blocks from the Electric Quilt block library.
The blocks have been twisted and turned to create dozens of variations of most of those, including quilting motifs.
Some of the blocks now bear very little resemblance to the original, though some of the shapes have changed very little.
I love the second of today’s designs.
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Oh, so pretty!
I would like to make it a little more interesting to make a real version … there are too many of those five petal flowers … though I don’t mind the quilted only ones.
Would be more interesting to make but a bit too busy for my liking.
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