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The 9 Patch blocks are not as complicated as they look … especially the outer with 8 of the 9 squares just the background fabric.

I love the second design, and it has a lot of plain squares scattered all over the design.

I like the muted colours in this project file, and I like the design above with the blank space to show off some quilting.

Looks like a lot of busy cross roads in the second design.

I started sharing designs from this project file in 2008, soon after I started the blog. I started using individual designs and trying to find names for them, but within a couple of months worked out that there had to be a better way, and started project files with a collection of blocks and kept playing with the same blocks in the same colours and finding many, many ways of arranging them. I admit to being completely and utterly addicted to seeing just what happens as I mix up the blocks, but I am not looking to have my addiction ...

The Log Cabin project file was one of the early files I opened just for this blog.

I am still amazed at the number of designs I found over 15 years ago, though I am not very impressed with the colour choices I made back then. My thinking was that not too many people would like the colouring enough to steal the designs and claim them as their own. I have since played with the colours in some of the old files and made them more attractive but some of them have too many designs to sit and recolour.

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Love the windmill block!

Second design is interesting, but I prefer the first one.

What do you do with a heap of dark and dingy fabric scraps? Add some bright scraps!

What do you do with almost equal amounts of dark and bright scraps? Cut into triangles join them together randomly, then play with placement to see what you can create.

I don’t like piecing blocks, but I like the design for a pieced quilt.

Another interesting pieced design.

There are just three blocks used in the designs in this project file. Traditional Log Cabin construction is used for all and one of the three is the traditional colouring. The other two use either all light or all dark fabrics.

The second design is very neat. I like it.

The one above is a bit pointy for me.

Finding the right light fabrics to make up these designs would be the biggest challenge.

The last design looks a bit unfinished. I would make eight more traditional Log Cabin blocks and place two of them in the middle of each ...

Interesting design!

Every time I look at this project file I think of coaters for the table rather than quilts for the bed!

More blocks now, and it looks more like a quilt.

Another interesting design, and my favourite.

The last one looks more like Christmas colours.

More Log Cabin designs, mid week, next week

Patterns in a night sky with no moon.

Love the second design and would love it with any combination of colours,, providing one was light, and the other dark.

Christmas is coming, so the decorations and lights are appearing in shops, homes, and blogs! Even this blog which features virtual quilts rather than real ones.

My reason for sharing virtual quilts is that I designs way too many quilts, just for fun, and real quilts over the Christmas period are very rarely required Down Under so the only excuse I have for to design them is to share them here, though I am going to print out a whole heap of them to create a real banner to hang across our bedroom window,. The plan is to laminate the ...

Felicity’s Five Patch is the block in the middle of each side of the design above. All the other blocks are variations of that block, created by altering the placement of fabrics.

I think I like the first design best, but maybe that is because I misplaced two blocks in the second design.

Very neat regimental formation!

A very interesting mix of 6 different blocks, all based on the same grid.

I like both designs for different reasons.

Love the first design.

In these designs all 25 nine patch blocks have identical corner units.

I intended to use a contrast colour for the corners, but got carried away before I found a combination which worked.

In the second design the four corners stand out more than the other five squares which make up the 9P blocks.

Very interesting.

Lots of movement in the second design.

Lots of purple pieces!

I think these designs are a bit too busy for the average bedroom but it is fun playing with the blocks to see what happens.

I think I should try using less blocks, and if a big quilt is needed make the blocks bigger.

Guess what music will be going round and round like a record in my head today!

I started this project file when quilters around the world were making Dear Jane quilts, using the same size blocks, but repeating block designs to create overall pattern rather than a sampler of a multitude of small block designs..

I like the second design.

Exciting!

Not very often I say that about any pieced quilt design, real or virtual, but that was my first reaction looking at this one this morning when I had decided to use this project file for today’s virtual designs.

Second design is ok, but not exciting.

Starry, starry night!

Not so many stars in the second design, but it is my favourite for today … I like the empty space waiting for some quilting lines to be added.

I have rarely seen a Log Cabin Quilt in pretty pink, but this project file is proof that it works.

Of course, the designs would work in other colours, but sometimes I like to break the mold.

The design above is very interesting … I like it!

Another very interesting design!

The last one is neat and tidy …

… but my favourite is the very interesting design on the left of the bottom row. More Log Cabin deigns mid week, next week to browse through during a short retreat from the world around us.