This small, colourful, and very geometric quilt needed something to soften the hard edges, so I quilted it using the curvaceous open headband motif in a bright yellow thread.
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Another big quilt made with ‘busy’ fabrics. To quilt it, I stitched in the ditch around all the elements in the blocks, then did cathedral windows in the small 2″-square internal borders. I did a large meandering stipple in the main border.
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How to quilt this scrappy quilt made with very ‘busy’ fabrics? I decided on a simple cathedral window motif for each of the squares in the main part of the quilt and the border, using a variegated green and yellow thread.
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This was a really big quilt. How to quilt it? I decided on an all-over motif, a variation of open headbands, with ‘petals’ to emulate flowers. I used a purple, yellow, and cream variegated thread, which seemed to work well with the pinky-mauve main colour in this quilt.
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This scrappy quilt had so many different fabrics and colours that any quilting was going to get lost in it, so I opted to do a large meandering stipple to hold the layers together.
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Number 300! 300 quilts quilted for the Western Australian Quilters Association Community Quilts program in the 54 months since June 2012!
This 300th quilt used fabrics in dark jewel tones, and looked to me like a disappearing nine-patch. I decided to quilt it in spirals to counterbalance the geometric nature of the blocks, using a variegated purple thread.
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How to quilt this blue and brown quilt? Well, the star blocks gave me a clue. After stitching in the ditch around the main elements, I stitched big wonky stars in the two brown blocks, and more in the centres of some of the other blocks too.
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It was hard to decide how to quilt this small ‘Chinese coin’-style scrappy quilt. After stitching in the ditch around the main colour blocks, I stitched vertical lines to cross the horizontals of the ladder-like strips. In the beige border I did a ‘u’ or ‘n’ motif, and a simple stipple in the green floral border.
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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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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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Rhonda Bracey: At Random 