Rhonda Bracey: At Random

And then there are the wonky quilts… This one was the wonkiest I’ve tackled so far. All those bias edges were wonky when sewn into the blocks, and the border was wonky.

So how to quilt a wonky quilt with fabric that bunched up in many places? You beat it into submission with lots of fairly dense quilting! 😉

I chose a matching variegated thread in blues, greens and purples, using a rounded spiral morphing into spikes, then echoed with rounded hops. I have no idea what this design is called but it achieved the end result of flattening this very wonky quilt top.

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Back (still with some loose threads caught):

Threads used:

• Top: Superior King Tut ‘Cairo’ (40 wt cotton, colour 932)
• Bobbin: Wonderfil Invisifil (100 wt, red)

Some quilts just sing. And this one had a whole choir going on 😉

I love batiks, and I especially likes how the maker combined shades of batiks I’d never have thought to put together to make this HUGE quilt top (I think this is the biggest I’ve done on my Sweet Sixteen). With the colour and the chevrons, and the overall linear movement of the quilt, I just had to stitch it with straight lines, a la modern quilting. I used a variegated thread with purples, greens, and browns/tans. And I used my Line Tamer ruler for the straight lines.

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Update Sept 2014: This quilt became a raffle quilt, raising $1850 for a charitable organisation and going to a lovely family: http://waquilters.com/2014/09/30/friends-of-larche-raffle-quilt/

Threads used:

• Top: Wonderfil Mirage (30 wt, polyester?, colour SD 29)
• Bobbin: Wonderfil Inivisifil ( 100 wt, polyester, navy)