Another quilt where I stitched one of the Jamie Wallen motifs in the white space. LOTS of stitching in the ditch on this one. For the border, I stitched wavy piano keys.
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Lots of various fabrics in this quilt! Any fancy quilting would get ‘lost’ in it, so I just did a large meandering stipple to hold all the layers together.
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First up — stitch in the ditch around EVERYTHING. Now, how to quilt it?
Because Jamie Wallen’s workshop was still fresh in my mind, I decided to do some large feathery things in the dark fabrics of the log cabin blocks, with some stippling in the white areas behind the appliqued flowers and their containers. For the border made from small squares, I did a half ‘cathedral window’ motif.
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A jelly roll quilt! How to quilt it? I decided to do a variation on the open headband and spiral motifs, combining them and adding rounded spikes emulating small suns or flowers.
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This big quilt had lots of white space and geometric blocks, all perfect for me to try out some of the designs I learned to draw the previous week at Jamie Wallen’s workshop!
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Another quilt that I stitched with an all-over spiral.
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Another huge quilt! I stitched it with an all-over ‘open headband‘ motif, one of my ‘go to/muscle memory’ motifs.
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This was a really big quilt, and my aim was to stitch the layers together in a way that held without going over the top with the quilting. I first stitched in the ditch around all the blocks, then simple straight lines (using my favourite Line Tamer ruler!) bisecting the blocks horizontally and vertically.
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This next quilt was a Christmas panel. How to quilt it? I started by stitching in the ditch around all the elements of the panel, did cross-hatching on the diagonal in all the ‘border’ blocks, with some MacTavishing surrounding the rocking horses, and some stitching resembling Christmas baubles in the background to the tree, finishing up with a meandering stipple in the outer border.
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To counterbalance the very geometric rail fence blocks, I stitched large spirals all over this quilt.
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Rhonda Bracey: At Random 