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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 ...

A very formal design, something I would admire, but would like something more personal to sleep under, but it would make a lovely mat for the lounge room! After all, the block designs were inspired by a piece of old linoleum found in a drawer of a house in Brandis Street.

I cannot pick a favourite between these two … love both.

The first design looks rather old fashioned, and would fit in an old fashioned bedroom in an old fashioned house.

The second is not quite so old fashioned but would still look nice in the old fashioned bedroom.

I like all the designs in this project file, and the one above is certainly no exception.

The second design looks very busy, but if it was a real quilt I would not use contrast quilting thread so the effect would be much more restful.

Love the design above.

Love the second design too, but in a real quilt some of the quilting motifs would be changed to filler designs … straight lines, cross hatch or stippling, and use thread matching the background for those areas, contrast thread for the remaining motifs.

It would be a lot of work to make, but worth the effort if you had the right space to show it off.

More work to make the second, but it would be very impressive.

Parade ground precision.

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

I love it.

More to love in the second design!

I love this collection of blocks which were inspired by an old scrap of linoleum found at the bottom of a drawer.

A lot of the shapes could make rather nice embroidery designs as well as the applique and quilting motifs I have used them for.

Moved into a house, found a dried up scrap of linoleum in a kitchen draw … and played with the shapes … and I am still playing five years later.

Some of the shapes have survived quite a few mutilations, and I doubt if most of them look anything like the inspirational originals, but I am still enjoying modifying them, and love the designs possibilities of my play times.

I love both of the designs above.

Interesting, very formal, but I like it.

Slight change, and I like the changes.

I love these designs, and still am amazed that I managed to turn a scrappy piece of lino into some very interesting designs for quilts. Well, I think they are interesting, even if no-one else does!

If nothing else, they are unique!

Very interesting. Room for some creative quilting in the first design.

Love the second design, which also includes some space for creative quilting, though in some of the spaces I would use some very simple lines.

Love the first design!

Very, very interesting.

Yesterday’s designs were inspired by an old spoon, today’s designs were inspired by a scrap of old lino. My only excuse is that I like old stuff!

I love the second one!

Not quite as complex as it appears as there are some intricate quilting motifs which look a bit like applique in there!

These designs make me think of some of teh antique designs I have seen.

I love the last one as it has a bit more open space between the applique,

I like it. These designs use similar colours to the 1970s floor covering the block designs are based on, just after the 60s orange started to become unfashionable.

I love the second one, but am not happy with the way the quilting looks here. Perhaps my virtual thread is too thick, or the design has too much detail.