Rhonda Bracey: At Random

How to quilt this beige jelly roll quilt? The simplest thing would’ve been straight lines to emphasise the strips, but I wanted to do more than that. Instead, I stitched an all-over ‘square’ stipple. I like doing this motif, but it takes a long time — I think it took about 3 hours to quilt this quilt (no rulers).

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Threads used:

• Top: Fil-Tec Affinity ‘Wheat’ (40 wt, trilobal polyester, colour 60300)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (light tan)

I think this little quilt took me longer to quilt than some of the big ones! I started by stitching in the ditch around everything, then echo stitched around the border applique, followed by straight-ish piano keys lines from the echo line to the border’s seams. I McTavished the centre area.

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Threads used:

• Top: Fil-Tec Glide ‘Linen’ (40 wt, trilobal polyester, colour 10WG1)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (white)

How to quilt this very geometric quilt? I wanted to do something round to counteract the points, but also wanted to incorporate some of the triangular shapes. I made up a new motif that I’ll call ‘Windmill’, ‘cos the ‘blades’ are shaped like those on windmills seen across the farmlands of Australia. It starts with a central arc, surrounded by the windmill blades, then a really big arc to encompass the motif.

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Threads used:

• Top: Robison-Anton ‘Earthen Tan’ (40 wt, rayon, colour 2569)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (light tan)

A baseball fan is going to love this quilt! The fabrics were so busy, I just went with a simple large meandering stipple in red.

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Threads used:

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

I hadn’t touched my quilting machine (Sweet Sixteen) for several weeks, so my first foray back into Community Quilts was a simple ‘muscle memory’ motif that I’ve done many times before.

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Threads used:

• Top: Fil-Tec Harmony ‘Driftwood’ (40 wt, cotton, colour 14069)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (light tan)