Rhonda Bracey: At Random

This is the last quilt I quilted in my HOT sewing room 😉 I’ve now moved my Sweet Sixteen into the living room, where there’s air conditioning and where I can keep cool.

I love this quilt — I think my main attraction is the creator’s use of colour.

But how to quilt it? The easy option would’ve been stitch in the ditch. Instead, I decided to do feathers in the checkerboard ‘arms’ of each block, in variegated threads that matched the block’s colours.

Then a central feather in the inner checkboard piece in the same threads, followed by ‘sort of’ feathers in the outer white spaces — these I did in either pale yellow or pale green thread, depending on the block’s colour. I went with a similar motif in the same colours around the central checkboards. I didn’t quilt the sashing strips, the borders, or the floral fabric stars.

Oh, and no marking except for the small central circle in the centre checkboards. Everything else was purely free motion quilting.

Threads used:

• Top: Yellow, green, purple variegated (King Tut, ‘Passionfruit’ colour #931); green variegated (King Tut, ‘Oasis’ colour #988); pale yellow (Isacord, colour #5650); pale green (Isacord, colour #0640)
• Bobbin: Various maroon and cream Invisifil and Deco-Bob threads from Wonderfil