Rhonda Bracey: At Random

This ‘Chinese coin’ quilt just called out for some straight ‘modern-style’ stitching across it, so that’s what I did after first stitching in the ditch around each of the dark borders. My Line Tamer ruler got a decent workout on this quilt!

I liked the final effect of the dark burgundy thread on the lighter fabrics.

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Threads used:

• Top: Robison-Anton (rayon, 40 wt, maroon/burgundy colour of some sort)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (lead gray)

This quilt just didn’t ‘sing’ to me and I took ages trying to figure out how to quilt it. It sat on the back of a sofa for a couple of weeks first, with me hoping to get inspired every time I passed it. It wasn’t to be…

I knew I’d have to stitch in the ditch around all the scrap fabric squares, so I started with that. The empty white spaces were then quite puffy, so I did a simple point-to-point star effect, but still the middles were too puffy, so I did an eight-pointed star inside each one of the big white spaces.

Not my favorite quilt to quilt, and it was BIG too.

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Threads used:

• Top: Mettler Metrosene Plus (polyester, colour 0781)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (white)