Rhonda Bracey: At Random

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program.

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Community Quilt 470

Community Quilt 471

Community Quilt 472

Community Quilt 473

I used a glow-in-the-dark thread for the cobwebs—hopefully the kid who gets this quilt gets a nice surprise!

Community Quilt 474

Community Quilt 475

Community Quilt 476

I had to be careful when quilting this one as all those corner triangles are floating (i.e. not stitched down), so I avoided them by just stitching double straight vertical and horizontal lines.

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program; some were from them, others I made from my scrap stash.

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Community Quilt 463

Community Quilt 464

Community Quilt 465

Community Quilt 466

Community Quilt 467

Community Quilt 468

Community Quilt 469

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program.

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Community Quilt 460

Community Quilt 461

Community Quilt 462

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program. I lost my quilting mojo for a couple of months, but it seems to be back! Number 459 is from a quilt top I made in January, all from scraps, many of which came from offcuts of previous Community Quilts.

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Community Quilt 453

Community Quilt 454

Community Quilt 455

Community Quilt 456

Community Quilt 457

Community Quilt 458

Community Quilt 459

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program. The first three are from quilt tops I made in January, all from scraps, many of which came from offcuts of previous Community Quilts.

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Community Quilt 445

Community Quilt 446

Community Quilt 447

Community Quilt 448

Community Quilt 449

Community Quilt 450

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Community Quilt 451

Community Quilt 452

Here’s the latest batch of quilts I quilted for the West Australian Quilters Association’s Community Quilts program.

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Community Quilt 432

Community Quilt 433

Community Quilt 434

Community Quilt 435

Community Quilt 436

Community Quilt 437

Community Quilt 438

Community Quilt 439

Community Quilt 440

Community Quilt 441

Community Quilt 442

Community Quilt 443

Community Quilt 444

Another batch, most of which were done when I returned from my US trip. However, when I took photos of them, one of the settings on my camera must’ve been off as the photos came out very bleached. I’ve adjusted the brightness/contrast in my photo manipulation software, but the colours really don’t reflect the actual colours of the quilts. I’m disappointed in the quality of the photos, and no longer have the quilts to retake photos from.

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Community Quilt 423

Community Quilt 424

Community Quilt 425

Community Quilt 426

Community Quilt 427

Community Quilt 428

Community Quilt 429

Community Quilt 430

Community Quilt 431

The latest batch.

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Community Quilt 418

Community Quilt 419

Community Quilt 420

Community Quilt 421

Community Quilt 422

Still busy with work, so while I’ve quilted some more quilts and taken photos of them, I only got around to processing the photos today and putting them up on this blog. Because I’ve forgotten what I did and what threads I used for most of them, I’ve put all into this one post. I’ve only made comments for any that were exceptional for some reason.

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Community Quilt 412

Community Quilt 413

Community Quilt 414

Community Quilt 415

Community Quilt 416

I used a Cindy Needham stencil to create the design for the empty blocks — a flower stencil, and then one of her universal stencils to create the stylised petals/leaves on the outside. The orange marks are quilters chalk, which will brush off over time, or wash out.

Community Quilt 417

I’ve been busy with all sorts of things in the past couple of months, so while I’ve quilted 15 quilts and taken photos of them, it wasn’t until today that I got around to processing the photos and putting them up on this blog. Because I’ve forgotten what I did and what threads I used for most of them, I’ve put all into this one post. I’ve only made comments for any that were exceptional for some reason.

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Community Quilt 396

Community Quilt 397

Community Quilt 398

Community Quilt 399

Community Quilt 400

Community Quilt 401

Community Quilt 402

Community Quilt 403

Community Quilt 404

Community Quilt 405

For this one, I used one of templates designed by Cindy Needham for the star pattern in the blocks.

Community Quilt 406

I used more of Cindy Needham’s templates for the flower motif in the borders, and for the sweeping curves in the outer border. I then echoed the sweeping curves, crossing over them to create a ribbon effect.

Community Quilt 407

Community Quilt 408

Community Quilt 409

Community Quilt 410

Community Quilt 411

This quilt was similar to #400 (above), with all that candlewicking. As with #400, I stitched around each of the main embroidery lines, then echoed them, then did MacTavishing in the blocks to make the embroidered areas ‘pop’.