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In this project the fabric in each block design stays the same, …

… but their position s are always changing.

Just playing with borders …

… is interesting and fun., even if I don’t change the background colour to make the borders more obvious.

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 ...

These are Round Robin designs with a difference in that the background fabric is the same throughout the design. Sometimes I have used a narrow strip border, and a lot of the borders are just applique or pieced blocks with some of the background between.

I like the blank spaces in the second design … I would keep some of the quilting very simple … straight lines, but there would still be some elaborate quilted border design included in the design.

I need to find time to play with Round Robin settings with added quilting layer!

Interesting!

This project file has been ignored for a couple of years, but I decided that today it could come out of it’s hiding place.

Love the second one.

I challenged myself to go through all my Electric Quilt project files and use the designs which have been waiting for years for their day in the limelight. Many of the files I am targeting have not been opened for two years … and often more! When I do open them I often add more quilt designs for future reference, or sometimes change the fabrics and save them in a new project file.

I like the second design, and suspect that there are many more in this project that I like as much, or more than this one.

Mostly brown with a touch of green of plants that are looking forward to some winter rain … that is autumn here in Australia.

My favourite today is the second design as I like the change of blocks around the centre blocks..

I love the strip borders with tangled corners, but would like to be able to redraft the applique borders to be more symmetrical, perhaps by removing the inner applique border around the centre block, or making it wider.

I love the second design … the applique is minimal, but well balanced, and there is a lot or room for some fairly simple quilting to shine. I would avoid too many busy feathers, but would use the fan shape used in the applique with a fair bit of background filling.