Tumbling in EQ6

This morning I was awake early and settled down with a cup of tea to play with EQ6. Electric quilt is wonderful for experimenting with layouts and colours. Today  I played with the tumbler block. My first thought was 'What if I square up the tumbler and add sashing. You can see the result above with the tumblers floating on the background. I suppose I could applique the tumblers on as an alternative to piecing. Here's a larger layout and an alternative arrangement of blocks:

Playing with the 'serendipity' tool creates random arrangements and this was one result:

I really like this! I tried a similar one with more colours - nice!:

Next I experimented with staggering the tumbler block;

 Hmm.............. lets try 3 colours:

 I added a vertical sashing on this and it reminds me of zipper teeth!

Interesting but what if I pieced some of the tumblers - splitting them down the centre?

Wow - lightening bolts!

This is only a very samll selection of the possibilities I came up with and when am I going to find the time to make them up???

For those of you who haven't heard yet - Electric Quilt 7 is soon to be released with even more features. I can't wait........................

A Tag and Skewed Blocks

I didn't do as much sewing as I intended today but I did make this luggage tag. I got the idea from my quilty friend Jean at our Tuesday Quilters meeting. She was stitching one she had made in her favourite colour (cerise pink) and it looked fab-u-lous!
I didn't have a pattern but it wasn't hard to figure out as it's just 3 quick flying geese blocks layered with wadding and backing, sewn round the edge and turned through.
Jean told me that she and our friend Sue had made 50 of these to take for everyone on their quilting tour of New England last year - what a great idea. They are very clever and generous friends!
Sue commented recently on my Fibonacci quilt and suggested using the sequence to skew quilt blocks. I had a (long!) play today with doing just that in EQ6. Here are a couple of quilts I designed using my skewed blocks.




I really like these. I think they look very Art Deco and really want to make them up so they are now on my to do list!