quilting motifs based on applique designs

Red and White Applique 11, 12 from Virtual Quilter

Who needs a dozen, or two, different colours to make an applique quilt!

One hint if you choose red as one of the colours … make sure you only bleed on the red fabric!

However, make sure you wash the red fabrics very well before cutting to stop the fabric bleeding.

This will be my last post as the Virtual Quilter here on WordPress. I am looking for a new home for the quilt designs, but have other issues to deal with so will leave a note here when I can find the new home and the other issues are dealt ...

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EQ Dozen + Quilting 29, 30 from Virtual Quilter

In my early playtimes with Electric Quilt I selected blocks from the EQ library, and kept rearranging them to see what happened.

I am still finding interesting designs twenty years later!

Very little applique in the second design, but the quilting in contrast thread shows up well, with space for filler designs as well.

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Unique Umbrella Flower 9, 10 from Virtual Quilter

Love the border design, and may have to play with some more designs before I close Electric Quilt for the day.

Second design is interesting.

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Double Wedding Quilts 29, 30 from Virtual Quilter

It feels like winter is close, so this week I will share designs for wedding themed quilts … newly weds just might appreciate them, though it is a bit late to star making one if the wedding is in the near future.

If I had started quilting earlier in life, and had the bright idea early enough, before my siblings and cousins had married, I could have made a family wedding quilt, to be passed on from one couple to another, giving me time to make each couple an individual quilt.

I love the muted colours in these two designs, and ...

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Ferns and Flora 29, 30 from Virtual Quilter

I have been at a quilt retreat for a few days, with machines humming, and voices raised to be heard over the machines, and othe voices, not to mention the laughter! The first design today looks so peaceful in contrast!

Things will be busy for the next few weeks, but on the whole much quieter than the last few days, but probably not so much laughter.

I love both designs, but the second one is my favourite.

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Aussie Banksia Betty 5, 6 from Virtual Quilter

A different species of Banksia with very different leaf shape in today’s designs …

… and some quilting motifs added to the second design.

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Fiddling with Fabric 15. 16 from Virtual Quilter

Big contrast between the designs over the last two days and todays designs.

The best part of going to quilt exhibitions is seeing something totally different when you walk around a corner … and possibly meet a friend too!

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Q and A Fine Iron Lace 29 30 from Virtual Quilter

A few applique blocks, and a few quilted motifs.

These designs would work in any two colours with good contrast with rather stunning results.

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Annie Clover in the Light 3, 4 from Virtual Quilter

A bit more colour than yesterday’s designs.

Today’s two designs are very similar, but with the positions of the colours swapped around.

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Darianne’s Delight 3, 4 from Virtual Quilter

This project file is a new recent addition to my toy box … but I am having fun adding more blocks, changing fabrics, though some fabrics are still plain.

I like the pale backgrounds … I have never tried using such pale fabrics in borders, but it looks very restful.

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Q and A Iron Lace 17, 18 from Virtual Quilter

These two have quilting!

I love the applique block used in this design.

The first is my favourite, but I like both of them.

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Anne’s Autumn Annuals 9, 10 from Virtual Quilter

The borders around this one I think should be used closer to the centre … too delicate to use around the outside of a large quilt.

I like the second design a lot more, and it could be used as the centre of a larger quilt.

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Iron Lace Borders Q’n’A 23, 24 from Virtual Quilter

If you drive through a town in Australia and there is lots of wrought iron around verandas and balconies it is usually a town which had a foundry. A lot of towns have at least some, but mining areas have more on older buildings, even if the mines are long closed.

Once I started drawing quilt designs I went through photos I had taken of the buildings and thought the lace work designs could be interesting as applique designs with some modifications, and then they became quilting designs too.

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Fragile Floral 7, 8 from Virtual Quilter

Love the criss-cross in the centre of the first one.

There is still a hint of something similar in the second, but much more subdued.

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Pansy’s Patch 7, 8 from Virtual Quilter

The first one is lovely ….

… but I love the second one more than the first.

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Aussie Banksia Carol 7, 8 from Virtual Quilter

Different leaves, but the flowers are the same. There are several species of the Banksia shrubs with an interesting collection of leaf shapes.

My favourite today is the second one.

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Brandis Street Blocks 35, 36 from Virtual Quilter

Every time I open this file I see old fashioned blocks in old fashion quilt designs, but I love old fashioned stuff. The cupboard which hold up our TV was made from timber used in a crate used when household goods were shipped to Australia from England in the late 18oos. It still has a bit of a lean to fit the dirt floor of the kitchen of the house I grew up in.

The lino floor covering I found in a kitchen drawer in the 1970s house we now live in is possibly a hundred years younger than that ...

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Jeparit Jewels and Stars 3, 4 from Virtual Quilter

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.

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White on Bright 13, 14 from Virtual Quilter

I should have given notice that you need sunglasses before opening this post!

Simple colour scheme, some applique, and plenty of room for quilting. It doesn’t get much simpler than that, but the results can be stunning.

I love the second one!

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Kelly’s Custom Quilts 45, 46 from Virtual Quilter

Any pieced block constructed of squares and rectangles can be used as a quilt layout in Electric Quilt. This series of designs doesn’t have my usual variety of blocks as I wanted to concentrate on making best use of the assorted block shapes.

It has been about 12 months since I played in this part of my favourite toy, and I think I should start more projects with a wider variety of blocks, and irregular layouts.

Of these two, I like the first one, and love the second!

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