Beaded Blocks and Borders Batik 20

Love it!

Batik fabrics are perfect for the ‘beads’ in these designs … the changing colours are gentler than in most prints and add dimension to the beads. Hand dyes are also great.

White On Colour 4

I rather like that change of scale!

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My advice to those who want to learn how to use Electric Quilt is to practice, and practice some more.

Here is a link to somebody else with the same advice if you want to learn to draw.

No matter what you want to learn to do well, you have to practice.

If you really want to learn something, that practice is fun.

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The Electric Quilt Company have a new product coming soon.

Electric Quilt Mini 

Framed by Logs OP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Today I am showing you several different frames which could be used as frames around pretty much any combination of Log Cabin blocks which you want to set on point.

Sometime in the not too distant future I will start sharing a series in which the designs have a central feature and a surrounding frame. Simple concept, but there are some rather interesting designs to come … and the collection of just frames will possibly be added to as well.

These layouts are already framed, but with a blank canvas in the frames.

(PS. I have already added another five frames to this collection … and the framed designs in the next series number several hundred. Lots of Mid Week Retreats covered by just one project file!)

Floral Wedding OP 19

Love it!

After Pompeii OP 18

Love the diamond in the centre!

Room for some creative quilting , which makes it even better.

Double Wedding Quilt 6

I have remembered why I don’t share Double Wedding Ring quilt designs very often.

Apart from this series they all need to be virtually quilted, along with a multitude of other series! I want more days in my weeks to spend just playing in Electric Quilt … virtually quilting! I also want a few more days to spend in the sewing room, a few more days in the garden …

Floral Wedding 28

Love it, and every design in the series, but the only way I would make one is to get the blocks printed on cheater fabric, which in this modern world is quite feasible. I could print small blocks onto fabric with a home printer, or send them off via the internet to be printed in my choice of size. Then send it off to a long arm quilter!

The worst part of making a quilt is doing the binding, and that is about all that would be hands on … I think I will stick with some of the slower methods, even if it means making very few of my virtual designs into real quilts!

After Pompeii 45

Still love this series, but it needs some quilting designs added.

I am on my way to Victor Harbour to spend a weekend with some like minded quilters … we promise not to have all the fun available this weekend, but I think we will have a bit more than our fair share!

Wedding Fans OP 40

Sometimes it is like meeting up with an old friend when I open up a project file and browse through the designs waiting for their day in the spotlight.

I hadn’t forgotten this project file, but had not opened it for a long time, and had forgotten just how nice it was. I might spend a bit of time just browsing through the designs before I close up the file!

Logs on Point in Purple 21,22, 23, 24, 25

I don’t usually like things that spin or twirl, but I do sort of like the first design of the day.

The one above is more my style.

The one above is my favourite for the day.

Change two blocks in each corner from dark to light, and it is still OK.

Not sure about the last one … but like the dark centre. It would work in all these designs.

The group photo so you can see the changes more clearly.