Rhonda Bracey: At Random

This is likely my last Community Quilt for 2014. It was the last of the most recent bunch I had received, and I won’t get any more until I go to Perth on Dec 19 to pick up a US friend from the airport. As she’s staying with us until Dec 28, I doubt I’ll get any/many of whatever is coming to me in the new batch.

Like the previous quilt, this was a ‘busy’ scrappy quilt of many colours and wonky log cabins. I decided to soften the geometric lines by doing an all-over circular motif in red thread, opting for my ‘open headbands‘, which are lodged in my muscle memory 😉

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Threads used:

• Top: Floriani (40 wt, rayon, colour PF188)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin

There were a lot of scrap fabrics used in this quilt, so detailed quilting would have competed with, or overpowered, those fabrics. I opted for a simple ‘cathedral windows‘ design instead (just in the small squares, not the larger ones, which I left unquilted).

I left the first border unquilted too, and did a large stipple in the outer border.

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Threads used:

• Top: Robison-Anton ‘Taupe’ (40 wt rayon, colour 2298)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (light tan)