I’m not really a fan of these colours, but together I thought they worked really well. To keep with the simple shapes, I decided to quit vertically in the three strips on the sides, and horizontally for the three middle strips. Each line is about 1 inch apart. Yes, I used my Line Tamer ruler for this!
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To counterbalance the rectangular shapes in this quilt, I decided to quilt large circles with a smaller inner circle coming off at a tangent.
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This was a BIG eye spy quilt for a kid, with each ‘jar’ containing some sort of bug or other animal (I had to photograph it on its side as it would’v e dragged on the ground otherwise). I decided to just do a simple large meandering stipple as there was so much ‘busy-ness’ in this quilt that anything else would’ve been overkill.
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For this quilt, I just used a simple variation on the ‘open headband‘ motif, adding a slightly curved hook to the point of the inner arc.
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I took my quilting inspiration from the curves in the border fabric, following those curves in that border, and then using a similar curve sort of on the diagonal in the main part of the quilt.
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Such a simple quilt, but really effective with the scrappy blue fabrics tat toned so nicely. I quilted straight line ‘X’s cut in half with straight lines that followed the square shapes as I didn’t think it needed a lot of heavy quilting.
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The last quilt of the latest batch of community quilts — a lovely bright ‘I spy’ quilt made up of fruit and vegetable fabrics.
I quilted it with a continuous line motif based on an inner spiral and outer ‘fingers’, using a variegated thread in yellow, green and purple.
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I made 13 quilt tops on my annual quilting retreat with my friends. I’ve now quilted them all, and have donated some to the Community Quilts program (Community Quilts 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, and 285).
The others I’ll either give as gifts or list for sale on my Etsy store in the next few days. Below are the ones I’ve kept for these purposes.
Gray with red diagonal stripe: 34.5 x 47.5 inches (88 x 121 cm)
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Available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/569284254/gray-and-white-crib-or-lap-quilt-with-a?ref=shop_home_active_10
Gray with orange square: 36 x 42.5 inches (92 x 109 cm)
Available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/583082603/gray-and-white-crib-or-lap-quilt-with-a?ref=shop_home_active_11
Gray with red vertical stripe: 32 x 43.5 inches (82 x 111 cm)
Available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/569284628/gray-and-white-crib-or-lap-quilt-with-a?ref=shop_home_active_9
Backing fabric used on the two above and the one below:
Gray with orange vertical stripe: 32 x 33 inches (82 x 84 cm)
Available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/569284898/gray-and-white-crib-or-lap-quilt-with-an?ref=shop_home_active_8
Yellow stripe: 39 x 51.5 inches (100 x 131 cm)
Available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/569285840/yellow-and-orange-crib-or-lap-quilt-with?ref=shop_home_active_5
This was one of the quilt tops I made on our quilt retreat weekend and donated to the Community Quilts program. They supplied the batting and backing fabric — I did the rest. In keeping with some of the floral fabrics, I did a variation on the open headband motif, adding ‘petals’ to the large arcs.
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This was one of the quilt tops I made on our quilt retreat weekend and donated to the Community Quilts program. They supplied the batting and backing fabric — I did the rest. To add contrast, I quilted it with an orange thread, using my favourite open headband motif.
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Rhonda Bracey: At Random 