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I love old buildings with wrought iron lace around the roof line and the veranda. Bendigo is one place to see a great collection. The colours I have used in this series represent the fertile soil around Bendigo, and other areas where mining was important in the early settlement period, and the farming communities which replaced the miners.

My favourite today is the second design.

Black background, with a small border in a contrast colour, and thread to match the contrast. and start quilting!

Unfortunately the virtual gold thread I have used for the quilting appears more like white thread, which is rather frustrating because I have been playing with this project file for quite some time and there are a large number of quilt designs which I had hoped would look better than they do here. Maybe they will look better when the post is published.

There also some ghost lines along border lines, but I hope you can ignore them.

Love the design ...

The first design today is interesting, and would look interesting on a tiled floor, not just as a quilt.

This style of quilt could be called Nearly Wholecloth Quilts, or Not Quite Wholecloth perhaps.

No piecing, no applique, just quilting lines. Use different fabrics for front and back and the result would be reversible … two quilts for the price of one.

I love both of these designs.

Once I had found some red and white pieced designs for yesterday’s post, I thought I should start an applique project. The first design above is not the first design I did, but I did a lot of changes to every design and the order got mixed up quicker then the fabric choices.

I found that the hardest part was finding assorted red and white fabrics as some are too pink, some have too much yellow and look orange, but I eventually found a small collection of red and white fabrics which had similar reds, but with enough variety ...

I remember that a few years ago there was an exhibition of red and white quilts, and it looked absolutely stunning. I have heard that our state guild is issuing a challenge for entries of red and white quilts in the next exhibition, and I woke up this morning with red and white designs going round my mind, so made myself a coffee and turned on the computer and opened electric quilt.

I think these are pretty good designs with a brain fueled with just one cup of coffee. I must have another cup and see what I can do ...

I love the iron lace on older houses, and would love some applique lace quilts on the beds, but I already have too many quilts.

Love the second design!

The blank spaces in all my designs with quilting motifs would be filled with simple background fillers, with my first preference being straight lines or cross hatching, either vertical/or diagonal, and would use a thread matching the background for the fillers, contrast for the motifs. The applique pieces would also be outlined just outside the pieces.

The first quilt design today is actually just one block with borders.

I started this project file ages ago, and it has become a very mixed collection of block designs, which I have tried to separate many times, but have pretty much given up on sorting them into two or three different collections. I have no Idea what I was thinking when I did them, but I have decided to just go ahead and design some quilts with them.

If nothing else I am interested to see what happens as I mix them up!

So far it seems to be ...

Minimal colour, but I love the design above.

Love the added quilting, but I would be very tempted to use thread very closely matching the background.

Sadly, the quilt is lost, but here is a lovely story of an historical quilt.

Interesting!

I don’t think the distorted blocks would be easy to put together, but they certainly add interest to the design.

Also interesting, and more distorted blocks, but this time much easier to put together!

I love the quilting motifs in both designs.

Cheerful colours, interesting design.

This project file was started while demonstrating at a quilt exhibition a few years ago. I selected some blocks, added colours, then started designing quilts. Spent more time talking to friends old and new than concentrating on playing with the blocks, but did spend some time talking about the Electric Quilt program and what is can do with those who wanted more information. I know at least one of them is now using the program.

All of the above plus some quilting!

More Irish tangles, with both applique and quilting included. The pieced blocks are easy, the applique is only a small portion of the quilt.

Love the first …

…. and the second!

So pretty, so dainty … like Aunt Flo’s tatting, but with a bit more colour.

No favourite today. Love both of these designs.

I haven’t opened this project file for well over a year, and my first impression was that it was applique, but all blocks are pieced, even the few curves.

The second design looks more like it has been put together by piecing.

I think I would like the backs of these designs as much, if not more, than the front.

Another option would be to make all the blocks in very pale washed out colours, not just the light areas.

I love hand quilting, but the curves in the quilting look like a great design for machine work.

The steps around the deign above are interesting, but I am trying to work out if I like them or not!

Very simple layout for the coloured parts, but I love the quilting design on the light areas.

More Log Cabin designs mid week ...

Parade ground precision.

Love the second design, still precise but with a soft touch.

Love the different colour backgrounds. They add a whole new dimension to the designs.

From now until Christmas day you will get a double dose of virtual quilt designs. Hope you enjoy seeing them, and have a wonderful real life Christmas.

Love the second design too, but I think the first one id my favourite of these two.

Very interesting design.

Looks like a Christmas morning with wrapping paper decorating the lounge room floor.

I love it., but I love anything in traditional Christmas colours. Perfect size for a queen size bed if the blocks were made 12 inches square.

Love the second design too and the quilting would look great in white thread on the dark red.

These designs look more like the back of a pieced Log Cabin quilt.

Almost the same, but this time the Log Cabin block is facing the opposite direction

Curved logs on teh other side of the design above.

Once again the pieced blocks would be turned inside out.

My favourite is the last design, which shows the blocks in the previous design turned inside out.

More Log Cabin designs mid week, next week.