More Design Fun

My brain clearly kicked into play gear while working with the Garlic Knot block in Electric Quilt 7. I love being able to recolor a quilt in the design stages. I also  love being able to try alternate settings.

Debbie mentioned that an on-point setting could be done.  Needless to say that sent me right back to EQ7 for more play time.
On point?

The on-point setting gives it more of a diamond shaped feeling.  I like it.

But I also had to play with coloration  on the layout I showed yesterday.  So perhaps a nice rainbow version would be good.

I really like this, but then I thought what if..... the background fabric were black instead of the mottled tan???

I wonder what else I will discover with this block.

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A Little Design Inspiration

Reading blogs often leads to inspiration - or a condition that I call "I want to try that."  But sometimes I look at a design and the "what if" muse kicks me.
Yesterday my friend, Debbie, posted about a table topper that she made with some leftover Garlic Knot blocks.    She had made a larger quilt with this block that I had seen also.
Somehow, seeing the smaller one caused the "what if" to kick in.
SO ---- what if you laid out those blocks differently?
Here is a representation of the table topper that I created in Electric Quilt.

As you can see the secondary pattern created by the light background blocks is an irregular shape. That prompted me to put the block in EQ and play with layouts. Here is the final result that made me happy.

It creates a completely different effect that is like an interesting lattice.  Of course using different colors could change that completely. Hmmm.....maybe I need to play in EQ a bit more.


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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

Playing in Electric Quilt 7 allowed me to test something.  Can you teach an "old dog" new tricks?  Yes indeed you can.  I am going to show you two digital quilt designs.   For each one, I want you to tell me what traditional block design I used.  There is only ONE block design used in each quilt.  Are you up for the challenge?
Okay then, let's play
Quilt Number One:

Okay then, How about Quilt Number Two:

You may notice that each one has an hourglass section in it.  So, for the third question:  excluding the hourglass part, what is the BIG thing these quilts have in common?

I will give you a couple of clues.  Clue one: There is a trick to this.  Clue two: I got this idea from an episode of The Quilt Show (the 300 series if you need to "cheat" and go look- ha ha)

The prize is one that you can all win.  A workout for your brain AND a special "realization" that  you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Oh yes... I am "moderating" comments for a while so no-one tries to "cheat" - So I deleted Billie's since it got  in there before I started moderating.

National Quilting Day/St Patrick's Day

Today is a big day for me.  Two of my favorite things are celebrated today.  Quilting and Irish heritage.  I am a quilter and I do have Irish heritage.  I have never been to Ireland but I someday want to go there.
In our area there is a LOT of clover  growing this year.  Have you ever looked for a four leaf clover:

A couple of weeks ago, I was outside at work and found one.  It looks like the one above, but I didn't take a picture so I "borrowed" this one.
And for National Quilting Day, I designed this little quilt:

I call it Rolling in the Clover. I used Electric Quilt 7 and designed my "four leaf clover block."  Then I imported the image (above) into EQ7 as fabric.  (That I a cool feature that I just found!) And did alternate blocks in the new fabric. 

May the Luck 'O the Irish be with you today!

Just an Idea

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Star Stripes

A Design I made in EQ7

Sorry I am not saying much.   I am still tired from storm watching all day yesterday for work and then all evening because I needed knowledge of events for my own safety.   Seems all I can do today is yawn.