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The first design today has two 9 Patch block designs using two different fabrics, and it looks good.

The second design has 4 different 9 patch blocks and 3 fabrics, and it also looks good! One of the block designs is only used once.

The only down side I can think of is that I couldn’t justify spending an hour in a quilt shop to select the fabrics!

Nothing like star gazing when there is a clear dark sky.

I love the second design!

My quilting idea for these designs is to quilt the outline of the basic pattern of the block regardless of where the colour has been placed in the block. The back of the quilt would look like it had identical pieced stars all over the front.

This project file is based on one fairly complex block, but with some pieces hiding because they are replaced with the background fabric. 

Perhaps there are a lot of unknown star signs hiding in these designs.
 

Middle of another week, just after the middle of the year.

These designs have all light, all dark and half light, half dark blocks.

The next two have exactly the same blocks, but with a few of them turned around.

I like the one with the dark centre … but I might change my mind after a second coffee.

Just four all dark blocks in the last, and this is my favourite for today.

All  of todays designs are interesting.

I like both of the first two.

Love the third ….

… and the fourth.

The last one is the most interesting, and I  like it!

That is all for this week, but mid week, next week, there will be more Log Cabin quilt designs.

Interesting and impressive.

Another interesting design.

I love the way these designs have turned out with very basic alterations to the colour placement in the blocks.

The one above is my favourite for today.

I can see a lot of simple changes which could be made to the way these blocks have been placed.

More Log Cabin variations mid week, next week.

Single Irish Chain consists of 9P blocks alternated with alternate plain blocks.

My version uses 9P bocks, some solid ones, and some with colours added here and there.

I never know what sort of design I will find.

Just two pieced block designs can be mixed up in many ways!

 One block has lots of pieces, the other one a lot less.

I like the second design today.

All designs today are very similar, especially the first three … sort of.

There is a centre design, surrounded by all light blocks, then a border, more light blocks with one all dark block connected to the outer border , and a corner made up of three blocks.

Now it is time to change the centre and the rest of the layout!

A rather interesting change!

The last design still has a centre, light space, a dark border with just a small light space before the final dark.

That is all for this week, but there will be more Log Cabin variations ...

What can you do with 64 identical Log Cabin blocks?

The second design is the same as the first, but with the blocks turned inside out.

The next two use the same blocks again, with them turned inside out for the second design.

I like this pair, but I like the first pair more.

You will have to wait until I open this project again to see what the last design looks like.

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.

Same block designs as yesterday, but tipped on point … and so I found a very attractive but pointy inner border.

As much as I liked the inner border around the first design, I love the lightness of the second design.

Pretty colours, pointy pieces.

I prefer the first, but would prefer the second on  my bed.

Same collection of blocks as yesterday, but set on point.

I like both of these designs … the first as a knee rug, the second for a bed.

Like pretty much all of my pieced block designs, I designed a block, then added pieced and took pieces away to make a collection of blocks. The original  part of Star for Selina is used in the centre of both these designs, all the rest have some parts removed.

The first design is my pick of today’s pair of designs.

A project file featuring blocks from the Electric Quilt library, and it has been around since 2018, and grows a bit each time I open it.

I like the first  design , but I might just have to play with the border for future reference. Perhaps the border from the second design might work  better.

When playing with these blocks I find I spend more time linking up those fairly plain blocks than I do placing the stars!

The first design had just two different stars, the second has five.

Always pretty in pink!

Hard to pick a favourite … maybe the second one … maybe not.

There are literally thousands of ways to arrange the two shapes of Drunkards Path block. A lot of them are not symmetrical blocks, but there are hundreds that are symmetrical.

I love the second of these two designs.

Found a hidden file and thought it was about time it was dusted off.

Wow! I don’t use dark backgrounds very often, but I rather like these, so should do it more often!

This project brings back memories of scribbling block designs on scraps of paper.

They look much better all neat and tidy and in full colour!