Electric Quilt
Stuffups- Shady Pine November 30, 2015
- Tree Hangup November 28, 2015
- Christmas Characters in the Kitchen November 28, 2015
- Double Wedding String of Beads August 6, 2015
- Curved Chimneys and Cornerstones August 5, 2015
Electric Quilt
Category Archives: Kelly’s Custom Quilts
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 29, 30
Mmm … nice one. I love playing with quilt designs with different shades of background fabrics instead of sashing, and it works especially well when the blocks are assorted shapes.
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 27
A block design made up of squares and rectangles can be used as layouts for whole quilts, and I had fun designing a whole heap of blocks especially for this purpose. This project file is all basic pieced blocks used … Continue reading
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 25, 26
A few applique blocks, applique border, and lots of space for quilting to shine. I love the low contrast changes of background colour for some of the applique blocks. More applique in both blocks and borders, but still room for … Continue reading
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 23, 24
Not sure that I got the background colour change right, but I like the design. Deleted the contrast background in some places, but not all in teh second design. Must do better tomorrow!
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 21, 22
Love the idea of creating a design by using different background fabrics, and designs like the ones here show why! I like the first one best, but I have learned something from the second one … use finest, dotted line … Continue reading
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 19, 20
Interesting effect of using low contrast background behind applique designs, made more interesting in a custom design arrangement of blocks. I love the second one!
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 17
The designs today are each based on two different pieced block designs made up of squares and rectangles. I like the second one best … though after another coffee I may change my mind.
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Tagged Applique Blocks, Applique Borders, Quilting Motifs
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Kelly’s Custom Quilts 15, 16
This project file is an experiment with non-conventional layouts, or perhaps testing boundaries within the border of a quilt. I am not wrapped with my contrast choice, but very interested in the layouts. Let me be honest, I am always … Continue reading
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 13, 14
The design above uses one of the features of Electric Quilt, where a block using only squares and rectangles can be used as a quilt layout. In this case this is how you could make a ‘wholecloth’ quilt from two … Continue reading
Kelly’s Custom Quilts 11, 12
My virtually quilted designs are a great way to show how applique designs can become quilting motifs, but are a little misleading, because I do not add the boring filler designs, partly because it takes as long to fill in … Continue reading
Posted in Custom Settings, Kelly's Custom Quilts
Tagged Applique Blocks, Quilting Motifs
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