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This is one of the first project files I created when I became a Virtual Quilter, and it is still a favourite.

I have modified a few of the blocks but there are no modified blocks in today’s designs.

Double Irish Cabin again, but with flowers.

Perhaps I should add an elf to these designs.

Interesting!

They look a bit like it  is on point with pieced sashing.

I love the second one … and think it would be possible to make the Irish Chain blocks, then do machine embroidery on some of the blocks.

Spring bulbs bursting into life. A bit early here, winter has just started.

Both piecing and applique are fairly intricate, but effective.

Yesterday’s block set on point. Nice quilt design, but i can see it as a tiled floor, with kids hopping or jumping from one circle to another!

If these designs were on a bed in my house and small children were expected, I would shut the bedroom door firmly.

There are lots of possibilities using Log Cabin blocks as borders.

That is how I started this project file, but then I started playing with using some Log Cabin block variations as the background for applique.

The first design has Log Cabin blocks around the edges, and some very pale or washed out Log Cabin blocks with applique on solid blocks.

Then I asked myself a question … What if I use pieced blocks as background for the applique, sometimes, or all the time.

Then I thought that some inner borders to break up the light areas would be interesting.

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This is a way to use up a heap of dull fabrics … make a Log Cabin quilt, then add applique.

Make variations of the Log Cabin blocks for a very interesting background.

They can be any size or shape you like, or it may depend on how big the fabric stash is.

My real garden looks a bit like this at the moment … bare dirt with a few plants scattered around.

Unfortunately, some of those bare patches will soon be growing weeds. Thankfully, no weeds will grow on any patches of these designs.

That is all for today, but there ...

One of my very favourite project files.
 

I love the colours, and the blocks are a varied collection of applique and pieced designs, which of course have been modified a little!

Interesting mix of blocks to play with, plus colours I like, room for quilting motifs and some background fillers. For me there is nothing to not like about this project file.

I love the second design!

Irish Chain in green ….

…. Happy St Patrick’s Day

WOW!!!  Love the first design.

The colours could be a bit brighter, but the contrast is spot on, and the quilting design works well. though the quilting could use a little more detail.

The second design looks unfinished without the applique border  in the first design, and the quilting could use a little more detail.

I want to add lots of quilting motifs to this project file, but am finding that less is better.

I haven’t got the right colour thread either … though most times I would use a colour which blends in to the background, but  try to use more contrast on virtual quilts.

Dad’s favourite colour was green, Mum’s was purple. 

They also  attract bees  and butterflies into gardens.

I didn’t have favourite colours until I put these two together.

I think I should look for a green between the one in the background of these two designs.

The first is rather dusty, like my house, and all the others within  miles … no rain for months!

Then  comes my favourite for the day …. Love the vertical cross with the diagonal cross blocks around it.
 

Many Australian native plants can survive drought conditions, but they look forward to the break of droughts just like Aussie people, especially those who live in the country areas and provide food for those who live in the more built up areas.

The best flowers visible from my garden this year  were a couple of gum trees over our back fence, one with red flowers, one yellow..

In the second design the corners are different … I couldn’t decide which one I liked best, so left  them as they were. A real quilt made like this could be used with ...

Sometimes I have crazy ideas, like what if I select a random collection applique  block designs, and a random collection of pieced block designs for a new project file?

So I did … Jeparit Jewels  and some 9P stars.

I should have limited the number of designs in each of the block collections, but I didn’t.

After the first design came together I had to add fabric … and based the colours on the applique collection rather than the bright used in the stars.

So far, interesting!

I am not too sure if the  shapes of the applique will work well ...

Nice to see some greenery amongst the pink and purple … looks like a colour scheme for a garden!

A very interesting collection of blocks a in a great layout. Definitely my favourite today!

This project file has designs which I think of as something different every time I flick past any of the designs. They are certainly eye catching!

I wonder if the designs would be as eye catching in pretty colours… something which would be interesting to play with sometime!

My favourite is the first one.

This is a mixture of three or four different block collections so far, and I haven’t quite made up my mind if I have enough variety yet. I am thinking that there is at least one more which should be included.

I love the second design in the project file, though it took a few more than that to get the colours in the right places in the blocks from different projects.

The thing I am trying out is the background fabrics, two fabrics with a very subtle difference. I have tried it before, but I am hoping to ...

Happy New Year!

First day of a new year and it is the middle of the week already!

Usually the middle of the week is when I share some Log Cabin quilt designs … but today being the beginning of the year I would do something different to celebrate the new year.

It has been a long time since I have played with deigns of medallion quilts … quilts which start with a central block, then a variety of borders until it reaches the size required.

The two pieced borders in the design above are from the Electric Quilt Block Library, the ...