Rhonda Bracey: At Random

For this BIG quilt (yes, I had to hang it sideways on the clothesline to take the pictures!), I started by stitching in the ditch around all the elements. I didn’t want to overquilt it because the design needed to take centre stage, so I left many areas unquilted. However, I did a cathedral windows motif in the small squares, piano keys in the border, some pseudo snowflakes and a sun in the space behind the trees, and some wavy lines for clouds behind the house.

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Threads used:

• Top: Fil-Tec Glide ‘Navy’ (40 wt, trilobal polyester, colour 32965); Fil-Tec Glide ‘Cream’ (40 wt, trilobal polyester, colour 20001); Mettler Metrosene Plus (polyster, colour 821)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (lead gray)