So, I've been trying to find my groove again- the way in which my life seems "normal". A friend of mine is pregnant with baby girl number 2 and I couldn't help myself to ease myself back into sewing but by doing a simple triangle quilt for her. I gave her a plethora of fabric choices (because I have a ton to choose from still). This was our final decision (but as you can see from the second picture we needed just 1 more color to shake things up). The cream with birds and blue is a flannel backing we chose:
I used my handy dandy triangle ruler to cut them out (it's a 30 degree triangle ruler). I had already decided that the pattern would be 9 rows with 14 triangles across the top (two of which are halves).
First row up on the design wall:
All the triangles up on the wall, held up by pins:
First row sewn together:
Second row sewn and then sewn together to the top row:
(*I pressed the triangles in opposite directions so that they would
nest/line up better when sewing the two rows together)
A close up shot of how well I was able to line up those triangle points
(because I had to brag and was excited that it worked):
Then, the next wet of two rows sewn together:
And the two sets of two sewn together:
Rows 5 and 6 sewn together:
And then rows 7 and 8 sewn together and then sewn to rows 5 and 6:
Finally all the rows sewn together, for the final quilt top:
Basted the batting with the backing and quilt top:
We had decided to do simple, clean lines for the quilting, using the presser foot edge as the spacer:
All the quilting done:
We were torn for which color to use as the binding. Eventually, we chose the purple to give the quilt more of a pop:
Quilting all done - front (pre-wash):
Back (pre-wash):
Close up of the quilting (pre-wash):
All washed (with a shout color catcher which caught some purple)
Front:
Back:
Quilting up close on the back:
Folded over for a cool shot:
This quilt is going to be so well loved, I know it! The finished size ended up being 33.5" X 36".
