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Interesting but a bit tangled up!

Almost the same design, with some extra applique in the border, and the colours have been stirred a bit!

I think pink, purple and green are my favourite colour combination!

Simple, but I love it … and would love it more in reality after it was quilted!

Very pretty, and in my Mum’s favourite colours. I had to ask Mum what her favourite colour was when I was going to make them a quilt, and I had never noticed a preference in what colours she wore or what colours she used to decorate the house, but pretty much all the colours she used work well with purple.

Still pretty, although a little less space for quilting to be a feature.

Looks old even though I played with the designs in this project file this morning, and added about five new designs, including the two I am sharing today.

The second one doesn’t look near as old as the first design even of it is only a few minutes newer than the first!

Would be a nice topper on your bed on a cold night … how I wish we could have one of those tonight!

Very interesting layout!

The first design could be made as just a Log Cabin quilt, but with a lot of washed out colours in the light part of the Courthouse Steps blocks and a lot of all light blocks it makes a great background for some applique.

The second design would work with plain background applique blocks surrounded by all dark Log Cabin blocks.

I love the design above … most of the Log blocks are Courthouse Steps, with four Curved Logs in the corners.

Looks like a secret garden hidden behind some shrubs.

In the last one the garden is not so hidden ...

Very dark, but very interesting.

I wonder if these designs would be as interesting if they faded a lot.

Even darker, but I like it!

I decided I should start mixing up more pieced blocks with applique blocks.

The first design in this project file is all pieced blocks with some applique on four of them. Doesn’t need a lot of applique to make an impression!

In the second design the blocks are either pieced or applique, and now there is some quilting lines.

Very interesting.

Another very interesting design. Very different too.

Pieced blocks for the background spaces, with Bottlebrush designs on plain blocks … I like it.

I like the first design, but the second one is my favourite today.

Interesting mix of pieced and applique blocks in the first design for today.

The second looks like a plan for a neat and tidy formal garden.

The colours used in this series reflects the colours of autumn in central Australia. So far summer has been hot and humid, but after a few days of hot, we are having a couple of days of autumn, no rain over most of the country, but cool breezes and partly cloudy.

My favourite today is the first one, though the second one is rather interesting.

Love the first design.

Would love the second one too, but I made a mistake. Can you pick it?

Thank goodness in Electric Quilt I don’t have to use a quick-un-pick to undo the mistake, but will leave this one there to remind me that I should always check before selecting designs to use as a virtual quilt.

I think I can call this one impressive … it would attract my attention in any quilt exhibition.

I think it is the colour combination which stands out for me.

I started tis project file when I was asked to show how I played my favourite game …

… virtual quilt designing.

I have had Electric Quilt since EQ5, and it is now EQ8, and love it. I started this blog simply to encourage others to keep asking themselves the question I ask myself … “What if …?”

What id I change the background colour, just a little bit or a lot? I prefer the little bits I changed for the first one. I also love the butterfly.

A new project file to play with … so far nothing exciting, but I am interested enough to keep playing, though it is rare for me to cancel a project file once I have found a name.

A very basic design above, but an indication that it could get more interesting.

The only thing missing is the quilting motifs.

Not a lot of space for quilting motifs in the second design, and I love it!

I hope you have all been good in the past year, and that you have a wonderful Christmas followed by a great year in 2024.

The designs in this project file could be used all year round as they are not so obviously Christmas colours. The blocks are from the Electric Quilt Library, though I have modified some.

If anyone copies the design above, please don’t make the same mistake I did!

In this project file applique blocks are framed with 3 rows of logs.

The small applique blocks could be replaced with embroidered blocks.

I would like the two designs above a lot more with more variety in the applique, but love the frame around each applique in the one directly above.

Small friendship blocks could be made into a large quilt if they are framed with three or four logs.

hat is all for this weeks Log Cabin Retreat, but there will be more Log Cabin designs mid week, next week

In a new project file I coloured some Log Cabin blocks in rather subdued colours, then added some blocks from one of my Floral Cross collection of applique blocks.

I have fallen in love with this idea, and started several projects in different colourways, but I think this is going to be the favourite one.

My two favourite pastimes are combined in these designs … sewing, particularly quilts, and gardening.

No fabric is damaged and my hands don’t get dirty mixing the two hobbies in this way, and most importantly the dirty hands don’t come in contact with the ...