you may remember I wrote this about my clarissa quilt.
I rediscovered this project while cleaning up messes. I had a stack of related fabric scraps that I really liked, and, I started a year or so ago to make an old hourglass block quilt. I thought before I put it away in the ufo closet, I would just cut to make sure I would have enough and make 36 centers. sounded easy. the centers only have 4 hourglass blocks.
Underneath my sewing machine, I keep a basket of triangle cut offs and bits. While I was cleaning the floor of my sewing room, I needed to handle a bit of a mess they created. They play while I am not looking, and walk about the room at night. Corralling them was easy, but not playing with them was impossible. Mostly they are smaller than a 2 1/2 inch hst. Some are very tiny.
Last fall we launched our Triangle Masterclass, a nine part video series that covers everything you need to know to improve your triangle piecing.
We have dedicated videos for sewing half square triangles, quarter square triangles or hourglass units, double pinwheels, four-at-a-time no waste flying geese.
Plus there are videos on how I sew the quilt block together so I don’t cut off any points, and my two-pinning method to get perfect points every time. Wrap it up by watching how I used rulerwork on my longarm to quilt triangles into the design as well.
The course is free ...
read moreI started this leader/ender challenge with quiltville in July of 2016. My friend Lucy, my daughter, and I swapped hourglass blocks all year. The top was done in September 2017. It has been waiting in the 'to be quilted' closet until this year. Now it has a chance to shine as a completed quilt. There are over 3000 pieces in this quilt. It was such fun to get a new package in the mail with new hourglasses. And fun again as they were sewn into the top.
This also completes my one monthly goal at elm street quilts. And ...
read moreI worked on crumb stars last year for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I have 72 blocks made which will make a nice lap size. I am moving it to the ufo list since I don't know what I want to do with them yet. I thought I might make a straight setting until I took the picture and then I like them on point. we shall see
I am anxious to move on to something new.
I want to make 5 quilts for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I seem to have a thing ...
read moreI knew I needed to cut more qsts for another Clarissa quilt block. I like making them, but, they take a bit of time. Each hourglass is 2 1/2 unfinished. There are 36 hourglasses = 144 pieces. I do a little a time.
It started like any other Triple Play tutorial.
Jenny, Misty, and Natalie were each asked to design a quilt with pieced sashing. Simple, right?
Natalie created a cute arrow sashing with strip sets and hourglass blocks.
Misty used a traditional Seminole technique to sash her quilt with diamonds. And then, there was Jenny. (Oh, Jenny!)
First, Jenny stitched stacks and stacks (and STACKS!) of half-square triangles. Then the sashing began.
She made pinwheel, chevron, and herringbone sashing. She made flying geese, square-in-a-square, and sawtooth. And then…she kept ...
read moreThe Quilt Police are going to have a problem with this video … I show you how I stitch-in-the-ditch with my seams pressed open. GASP!
I think once upon a time when quilting fabric, thread, sewing machines and batting weren’t as good as they were today, this may have cause some issues. So we had this piece of knowledge passed down that you can’t press your seams open and if you do, sitching-in-the-ditch is out for quilting options.
But as long as you are using quilt shop quality cotton, high quality thread, batting, and a modern sewing machine, not ...
read moreThe Quilt Police are going to have a problem with this video … I show you how I stitch-in-the-ditch with my seams pressed open. GASP!
I think once upon a time when quilting fabric, thread, sewing machines and batting weren’t as good as they were today, this may have cause some issues. So we had this piece of knowledge passed down that you can’t press your seams open and if you do, sitching-in-the-ditch is out for quilting options.
But as long as you are using quilt shop quality cotton, high quality thread, batting, and a modern sewing machine, not ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video I show you how to sew a mitered border. This is a technique a reserve only for when the quilt or the fabric calls for it. What I mean by that is when there ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video I’m sharing how I always use two pins when I am joining triangle points to make sure they all come together correctly. I use one to align the points right on top of ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video we’re starting to sew our triangle units together into a block. This can be one of the most challenging parts because it is really easy for your points to get out of alignment ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video we’re making 4-at-a-time Flying Geese. They’re also called no-waste flying geese. We’re starting out with one square that is 1.25 inches larger than your finished block width for the large ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video we’re making double pinwheels. We’re starting out with two squares that are 1.25 inches larger than your finished block for the quarter square triangles and two squares that are 1 inch ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video we’re making hourglass triangles, which are also called quarter square triangles. We’re starting out with four squares that are 1.25 inches larger than your finished hourglass.
We cover the process in ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts.
In today’s video we’re making half square triangles, which are commonly called HSTs. We’re starting out with two squares that are 1 inch larger than your finished HST.
We cover the process in detail of ...
read moreTriangles quilts are absolutely beautiful, but they can also be intimidating. Getting your blocks to turn out the right size with all of your points in the right place can be a bit of a challenge.
That’s why we created the Triangle Masterclass, a collection of eight videos focusing on different types of triangle units that are commonly used in quilts. In each video we cover how to make the triangle blocks in depth from three different camera angles so you always have the best view. We also cover the quilt math of each triangle unit, so you know ...
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