Purple & Green Should Never be Seen

Purple and green should never be seen...without a colour in between.  Have you ever heard that? I don't remember where I learned that fact but it is just so wrong. Even though Carol does have a colour between her purples and greens these days I figure any colour can go with any other .. as long as the setting is appropriate.  What do you think of these blocks aren't they great?

C44 The Emperor's Hat	C48 Antipodean	C47 Buttercups
C48 Change	C48 Lily Pond	C48  Incredible Lives

Carol and Collection 45

Collection 45	As one can guess from the title blue was Grandma's favourite colour. It did look good on her, but then so did most colours. I suppose it was of her happy disposition that she always looked good.	C45 Lights of Dwali
No idea where the title Fizzle came from. I just liked the block and liked the word.	C45 Grandma Wore Blue	I was working in a year 2 class when I made this block and they were studying the religions of the world. Amazing the information one can learn when you approach a new topic with an open mind.
C45 Fizzle	Did Carol choose these fabrics for Easter which often occurs in April?	C45 April Showers
You can see the reeds and plants of the pond so easily here.	block 5 C45 Chillies in the Pond	Can you pick which block is February in the original collection? Amazing how different a block looks with a change of fabric value.
C45 Dancing Flames	Doesn't the lively fabric in Carol's block suggest Dancing Flames in the campsite  fire.	C45 February

Carol and Collection 43

Collection 43	Again Carol's colours are so much brighter than the original quilt. I must say her points are fantastic which, according to Carol is easy with EPP...hmmm!	C43 Flying Free
C43 Love is Blind	C43 Round Two	Can you see the bee? C43 Just There
C43 Level One	C43 Ebony in Roses	C43 Bottled Lemons

Collection 42 and Carol

Collection 42	Well Carol has definitely been busy. Here we have the entire C42 and you couldn't ask for a prettier selection.  I have no idea why Bouquet for Mary was named as it was. The name just seemed appropriate .. even though I don't know a Mary :)	C42 Bouquet for Mary
The central star in Reaching Out looks like someone reaching out to others, like the children's game Blind Man's Bluff.	C42 Christabella	The blue fabric in the original block was a beautiful (bella) scrap from a friend Chris.
C42 Reaching Out	A star Within a star the name comes purely from the design.	C42 Within
Where would a garden be without glorious flowers. Alone nothing but together so vibrant and joyful... the Two of Us or the two of them ... really doesn't matter.	C42 The Two of Us	There are many gems but one of the prettiest has to be emerald green and Ruby Red.
C42 Twirling Dervish	Twirling Dervish  are traditional male dancers seen in the Istanbul, Turkey. You may see a video here of some of these amazing men in action.	C42 Ruby Red

Carol & Collection 44

C44 Khanam's Gift	Three blocks from Collection 44, where as you can see I decided to really get into the curves. Carol completed these using EPP and appliqué, while I completed them using the old fashioned trace the template and sew along the lines trick....old tricks never fail as they say... I never appliqué unless desperate and even curves don't make me that desperate:)
C44 Morning After	C44 First Flower

C44 Stripes Rule

And just so you didn't think I was the kind of person to get into a rut... a few straight lines almost hidden by more straight lines

Collection 41

Again you can see Carol's colour choices are so much more vibrant than the originals. Don't you just love patchwork you are never sure what you will finish with?

	C41 Halloween
C41 Twisted Bunting	C41 Let Me Fly
C41 Mud Pies	C41 Summer Frock

Full steam Ahead

C41(almost) Dodgy Solutions

C41 Clean Solutions

 Carol was flying along a few days ago and with plenty of time on her hand set down cut out a block. Unfortunately it was, as the name suggests, a bit dodgy. The result was the block on the left Dodgy Solutions. Oh well another block for the quilt...lucky she always planned on making a king size quilt. Well in truth she initially wanted a queen size quilt but couldn't decide which collections to omit and so figured king was a better size.

After Dodgy Solutions she then figured it would help if one looked at the design when cutting fabric and so we have Clean Solutions, which does have equal sized borders but due to my cropping skills it appears slightly larger on one side.... isn't it great that we all have skills both to share and learn:)

The name Clean Solutions comes from the resemblance of this block to the symbol used for nuclear materials. Interesting isn't it that once we thought nuclear energy would be perfect with no waste products to pollute our world..we live and learn.