Tuesday 6 August 2013

Triangle Tuesday

When May came to visit a few weeks ago, she very kindly brought me this awesome Oakshott stack.  I've fondled, and drooled, and thought, and today I decided to cut into it


I pressed all the fabrics, trimmed them, and cut them into a 2.5 inch strip and a 6 inch strip


The 6 inch strips then got cut into 6 inch triangles


















(just look at those yummy colours)



















and the triangles got sewn into strips and the strips got sewn onto a fleece blanket, and this is what I have


 
I  now have a shopping list for some more Oakshott for a border, and I have the 2.5inch strips to join to make a scrappy binding

I wanted to blitz through this one as I know I don't like HSTs and I wasn't sure that triangles would be much better, but I knew I wanted to use this fabric as triangles - I was worried that if I put it to one side I may never come back to it.  

The verdict?  I LOVE the top because of the colours, I'm really pleased that I went with triangles, although I know that plenty of points don't match (darned bias edges) and I strongly suspect there wont be many more triangle quilts in my future!

10 comments:

  1. Brave on so many counts Benta, I would still be drooling over them :)

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  2. Don't you just love how it shimmers?

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  3. love the colors and the triangles; bravo

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  4. Good call there Benta! I'm sure May is delighted you have pounced on this so quickly and don't worry the colours are so gorgeous no-one is looking at the pointy bits!

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  5. Well yes, May is delighted and she had this small inkling you might like the colours from all the fondling the fabrics got :-) Your quilt is gorgeous and who cares about some smaller mishaps?

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  6. Love the fabrics and love what you've done too.

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  7. This is gorgeous! Triangles are perfect for those wonderful colours :)

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  8. So beautiful, Benta! Those fabrics look wonderful and your triangle quilt is perfect way to use them! x Teje

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