Monday, June 27, 2011

Triangles Part 3 and the Winner

Another scrappy Triangle Quilt - simple shape done with lots of color.

This is an equilateral 60 degree triangle - easy to make up your own template or use an acrylic ruler.

Why you're cutting - why not do a few sets - one for you, a friend and a donation quilt?

This could be called a charm quilt - one shape repeated over and over - but I quit before I got to 1,000 pieces.   This is a nice lap sized quilt.

The border purple paisleys are chasing each other around the edge...no mitering.

It is machine pieced and machine quilted.








This is a close up of the top with the corner turned over.

The backing is flannel - the machine stitches bury nicely and the quilt is really warm!

I also used a medium/light binding - I usually go dark or a stripe.  Glad I tried something else!

I tried not to duplicate fabrics - but I see I did - oh well, that's what happens in the scrap basket.

Why was I wanting to use up some of my stash - when I look at some of these I wish I had more yardage now!








I completed my June Beyond The Cherry Tree Block.

This one was great fun - I have been looking forward to it.
Changed a few things here and there...looking forward to starting the borders.  Remind me later I said that!

The rest of my blocks are in my Flickr Album.













Thank you to everyone who dropped by and left a comment on the Triangle Strippy Quilt.
It was fun 'meeting' the people reading the blog - I always wonder...who are they?
...and now I've heard from a few of you!  Great FUN.
Your ideas are wonderful and very inspiring for future projects.


The winner of the triangle give away.......Drum Roll......


Congratulations - Heidi at Between Stitches.
          "...not a matching kind of girl, I like random! I may repeat a fabric if it's a small piece, but you'll really have to look for it to find it. As for the strips and their color, I normally don't plan ahead for such things, I just design as I go along and let the quilt tell me what it needs."

Please contact me at cwaneedle@gmail.com with your snail mail address and I'll get these posted so you can start a new project!

Have a fabulous week.

13 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness! Your cherry tree block is awesome!! You inspired me to get back to mine, as it is partially done.
    Your quilt is fantastic. I have a hard time matching up triangles for piecing. I love how you shared the piecing trick on the strippy triangle quilt.

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  2. LOVE your triangle quilt - it looks amazing! And your applique block is wonderful as well! Thanks for the show and tell!

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  3. Your triangle quilt looks great. I have a box full of triangles patiently waiting for me to get my act together and sew them into something!

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  4. Love the triangle quilt. Beautiful scrappiness!
    Your applique looks wonderful. What a great fabric for the bowl!!

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  5. Dawn, love your triangle quilt, but what's not to love about scrappy! Your Beyond the Cherry Tree block is great - I really like what you did with it.

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  6. beautiful triangle quilt on my list of someday quilt to make! Congrats to Heidi she will have fun with those triangles....
    I LOVE the fabric you used for the vase, wow, so effective, thanks for sharing.
    Kathie

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  7. Love all of your scraps in the triangle quilt. I feel the same as you, always wishing I had more of a long time scrap to use in current projects. But new to us fabric is fun to buy, too.

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  8. I have never done a 60 degree triangle quilt. They are too scary for me!! I don't know why...maybe it's all the bias edges. Your's came out fabulous!

    Deb from clutteredquilter.blogspot.com

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  9. Beautiful! Love the flannel backing idea to hide the stitches.

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  10. The scrappy triangle quilt is so appealing, and I love how you've done the BTCT block. I must get back to mine...

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  11. Love the colors in this triangle quilt. Very fun!

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  12. Love your triangle quilt - the fabrics/colors are fabulous! Love your BTCT block too- again, love your fabric choices - you have a great stash!
    Congrats to Heidi - what a lucky woman.

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