July 12, 2009 by virtualquilter

Sorting throughall the bits of paper I have found a few quilts drawn up before I got Electric Quilt.

Fabrics were obviously not scaled in the earlier program I used, or those scissors are a really big print!

In this last one, I drew up a lot of the blocks before I could do the quilt. This quilt was actually turned into a real life quilt, as part of a friendship quilt with the Golden Harvest Quilters.
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July 11, 2009 by virtualquilter
They are always happy to see you, even if you are always there.
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July 11, 2009 by virtualquilter
There is almost an element of Tartan in parts of this. Hopefully an Irish tartan.
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July 10, 2009 by virtualquilter

Doesn’t do anything for me!
But I am starting to ask myself what if …….?
Will have to think about that, because I have already started playing with a couple of other series and getting some interesting results.
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July 9, 2009 by virtualquilter

I wouldn’t make this in such heavy colours, but maybe it would make up as an interesting quilt.
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July 8, 2009 by virtualquilter

Ooooh, I like the sort of doubled up square on the diagonal around the centre of this one.
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July 7, 2009 by virtualquilter
They never complain about your cooking,
even if you forget to cook dinner.
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July 7, 2009 by virtualquilter

Very pretty. Very dainty. Almost too much sweetness!
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July 6, 2009 by virtualquilter
Giant cross stitches!
Wonder what this would look like worked on Aida cloth, or perhaps as Chicken Scratch on gingham?
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July 5, 2009 by virtualquilter

Love how there is a hint of a square on the diagonal, created with just four diagonal applique blocks.
Lots of little bits to applique inthe corner blocks, and there are twelve of them!
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July 4, 2009 by virtualquilter

I have to admit to choosing these blocks because I didn’t like them much and couldn’t ever see myself publishing them in a pattern.
I am starting to change my mind!
That one in the middle is starting to show some possibilites.
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July 3, 2009 by virtualquilter

This design uses both all light and all dark variations of the Log Cabin block.
All the blocks should be made the same way wether they are half light/half dark or all one or the other.
Remember that you are welcome to use any of the Log Cabin designs I show you, but if you do, you owe me a photo. Please!
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July 2, 2009 by virtualquilter

This is what I would call a pretty busy mess! Everything is pointing but nothing seems to be going the right way at this point. But as far as this series of designs goes, it is early days yet. I think there is better stuff to come.
For many years I have been saving colour pictures from magazines as a colour exercise. A couple of times a year I go through the pile, sort them into colours, and over a period of time I have discovered that my favourite colour is green, and that I like almost any colour picture that has green in it. I like green combined with just about any other colour, but the most saved combination has been pink and green
This series of designs is the first time I have used so much green in so many shades, and I think I like green most when it is with other colours. Oh well, I haven’t wasted any of my green stash to find this out, and it might grow on me anyway.
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July 1, 2009 by virtualquilter

I like the cross effect in the centre, and I like the tartan effect in the corners, but I am not real sure it is a great plan overall. I hope that somewhere in the project file I have added another colour to this design to see if it works better with some added contrast.
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June 30, 2009 by virtualquilter
I have hardly picked up a needle this year, and the year is half over, and have filled in my time playing and sorting through boxes of scrappy paper and magazines. The results are scrap books full of stuff which is interesting only to me probably, but if you would like to see what has inspired and influenced me over the last twenty years go have a look at a few pages from my scrap books on my other blog, Stuff-Ups.
In the meantime, I will try to get the last piles of paper sorted into scrap books or the bin!
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