triangles

Sewing with triangles................... from Exuberant Color

Last night's sewing session was finishing up the 2" finished floral triangle squares. I added 5 more piles of four after I took this photo so I could make 41 pinwheel blocks.

One idea for them would be like this quilt in a Kaffe Fassett book. I would just have to find a fabric for the alternate squares.

Another idea would be to save them for a border on a floral print quilt. I always hate having to make a lot of little blocks for a border after I get a center made. I could do it the opposite ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 2 weeks ago. under triangles

Triangles...................... from Exuberant Color

Early in the day yesterday I sorted all of the floral triangles by how many of each there were. There were 26 sets of 4 dark and light.

Six of the sets have 8 dark and light triangles.

During the 2 hours I watched TV I sewed 20 sets of four, 80 total. I don't know what I'll work on today and how I want to end the month for my recap.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under triangles

Tilda 2 finished...................... from Exuberant Color

The Tilda Whimsey quilt is finished, pattern on Tilda's website. It's so hard to get a good photo of these soft color quilts. It is prettier than this photo shows.

This quilt is 56" x 74" and has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it.

It was longarm quilted by Robin Diaz.

I love the bicycle print on the back of the quilt. It isn't a Tilda fabric but I thought it was a good choice for this quilt.

I found a pile of light value floral prints so I cut more 2" triangles to match up with ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under knitting , triangles

Little things..................... from Exuberant Color

I spent time outside doing more garden clean up and didn't get a lot done in the studio. I found a little pile of batik triangle squares and since there were 4 matching of each, I made 20 little Broken Dishes blocks. Sewn together these would make a placemat size piece. I could just save them in the batik orphan block box and use them as filler blocks. I'll press them and then decide what to do with them.

I also cut all of the Kaffe sewn strips into segments for 4 patches and sewed them together. Another ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 4 weeks ago. under 4 patch , nature , triangles

Making progress................ from Exuberant Color

I needed to clean off the top of my sewing cabinet so 11 Broken Dishes blocks got sewn and the rest of the triangles went back into the 3" Kaffe fabric parts box. I will probably put these blocks in the Kaffe orphan block box for now.

Next up was trimming the Tilda 16 patch quilt and cutting the binding strips.

The backing fabric was a purchase around 1975-6. It was 38" wide. I always liked the woodblock type prints and the color of this one went well with the Tilda fabrics.

I always start my hand sewing a few ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 9 months ago. under binding , triangles

Spring taking its time............... from Exuberant Color

I checked my post from a year ago today and we were way ahead of this year's growth in the garden. I still have bare ground in some backyard gardens and last year it was almost half filled in with large plants. The Redbuds show progress but it will still be a week or more before full bloom. That is really the normal time for them to bloom so I think last year we had an early spring.

The earliest peonies are about a foot tall and I can see lots of the other ones starting to grow too ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 9 months ago. under nature , triangles

Sorting......mindless work........... from Exuberant Color

Last night I decided to sort the triangles in the box of 3" Kaffe collective fabrics. Since I cut them with my die cutter, and there are either 6 layers or 10 layers, depending on which cutter I used, there was a variety of fabrics in each pile.

Then I decided to divide them by stacks with less than 8 triangles and stacks of more than 8 triangles. This photo is all of the ones with 8 or more triangles. A sawtooth star would take 8 alike.

Next I paired all of the ones with less than 8 triangles and ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 9 months, 1 week ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

Progress as I look at it........................ from Exuberant Color

The color is way off in this photo, but it is showing the progress from yesterday.

The top 8 rows are all sewn together, trimmed at the left edge but not on the right side.

Below that is 2 more rows sewn together. The next row is at the sewing machine, and the bottom 4 rows are waiting to be sewn. I decided to just lay the bottom row on the floor instead of pinning it to the design wall. I think this one will end up around 47" x 67" and I'm thinking about putting flannel on the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing , triangles

First quilt top for February 2025........... from Exuberant Color

The first thing I'll say is that it is a lot prettier in person than I have been able to capture in a photo. This little quilt top is all Kaffe Fassett collective fabrics. I was able to use a pile of scraps and just a few pieces cut from yardage. I would never have made this quilt if I didn't have a die to use for the cutting. Its a Bow Tie die, with a wonderful secondary pattern.

I bought this cute piece of flannel on sale a couple months ago and I think it is perfect ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under accuquilt die cutter , kaffe fabric , triangles , yo-yo

Sewing it all together.... from Exuberant Color

I couldn't figure out a good pressing plan if I sewed the blocks into strips or 4 patches, to get the seams going in opposite directions for matching in the construction of the top. I decided I would just wing it and sew top together, webbing it. First I laid out the 4 different corners fabrics in rows on my cabinet.

Then I started sewing it together alternating positions of the 4 different triangle fabrics.

I got all of the seams sewn in one direction and have 3 seams sewn in the other direction in this photo. The rest ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

A quilt top!............... from Exuberant Color

The flannel quilt top is finished! It has been hard to get a good photo of this quilt. It is a little more rust toned than it looks here. The contrast between the light and dark is also softer. If you go back to this post you can see the original quilt I planned this layout for.

I took some close up shots to better show the colors and patterns in the fabrics.

The colors in this photo are truer than the photo of the whole quilt top.

This photo is also truer color but the contrast if off. The ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 12 months ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , triangles

Now this is better......... from Exuberant Color

I cut several flannel fabrics into 4.5" x 8.5" rectangles and some into 2.5" x 8.5" rectangles. I left a few of the darker pieces in it and added more medium value rectangles. It flows much better now. I sewed a lot of the triangles into squares last night and made more blocks. I have to make two more blocks with 3 vertical strips of triangles to finish the layout. This will be 40" x 40" when sewn together, a nice baby quilt size.

I have one more baby quilt size top that I sewed last ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , triangles

Taking count.......... from Exuberant Color

It was an errand day yesterday, in addition to baking a batch of cookies. I didn't get much sewing done so I did counting instead.

Single columns of flannel triangles. The original quilt I designed (shown on Monday's post) has 7 of these.

9 Double columns - most would be like this because I have 8 in most of the sets of triangle squares. In my original quilt I have only 4 of these so I can add one more strip to 5 of them to make triple columns.

I only have 4 of the triple column blocks sewn ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , triangles

Plaid-ish mock-up............. from Exuberant Color

I cut enough pieces to make a mock-up of all three blocks that are in the Plaid-ish quilt. The medium value blocks are in both vertical and horizontal positions. Red/pink/orange is my medium color for my version of the quilt and I needed to be sure there was enough contrast between the dark and medium fabrics. I think it is going to work so now I have a lot more cutting to do.

I only got 2 blocks sewn of the flannel triangles. I baked one batch of cookies and mixed the dough for another batch that needed ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

Discoveries and an idea.......... from Exuberant Color

My post today will be in reverse order to explain how I get ideas.

This is sewing from 2 nights, 82 blocks. (total number from several days = 269). As I was sewing them, I was considering an all triangle square center of a baby quilt. I was trying to decide if all of the ones with the same 2 fabrics would be grouped together or if I would spread them out in a random grouping. Then I started thinking about how else I could use them: a small center with a border around it and then another round of triangle ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under marcia derse fabric , organization , triangles

What is in the project boxes........ from Exuberant Color

You will have to humor me, I need to have this post to come back to later. There may be a second post like this. I'm starting to search through the boxes to see what I have in the parts department. Box 1 had these 3" batik 9 patches and 4" 16 patches. There aren't enough to make anything other than table runners at this point. I'm having discussions with myself on what I want to make more of, and what I will settle as a small project.

Box 2: I made these blocks from the Kaffe ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under nature , nostalgia , triangles

Another day of triangles......... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday morning I paired lights with dark for more flannel triangle squares.

I got 51 of them sewn last night. Now my totals are 54 + 58 + 51. I still have a bunch to sew from the morning pairing.

This is the assortment cut so far of dark squares for the Plaid-ish quilt. I have 60 of 80 cut, 20 to go. I'Il probably overcut since I'm not sure the ones with red in them will work because all of the mediums are red/pink/orange. I also have most of one of the other shapes cut.

This is ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , food , kaffe fabric , triangles

More flannel triangles............. from Exuberant Color

Last night's sewing yielded 58 flannel 2" finished triangle squares. There is one more light fabric that I cut that didn't get used yet. I think I need to check the flannel scrap bin one more time for light fabrics. I probably will have to go to yardage before I'm done. So now I have 54 + 58 squares sewn.

Every year I'm amazed at how fast the daylight each day is extended after the shortest day in December. I'm going to have to reset the starting time for my little trees because they are coming ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under nature , triangles

Triangle sewing........ from Exuberant Color

Last year when I was finishing my flannel quilt production I cut a lot of 2" finished triangles. Most were dark so yesterday I looked for some light scraps to cut more triangles. I got 54 sewn while watching TV last night.

There are lots more dark triangles waiting for their partner. I'll look for some more light fabrics today.

I had also cut a lot of floral triangles from waste areas when cutting for my quarter square triangle last year. I needed to cut light ones, so while I had the triangle die out, I looked for light ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , triangles

Cleaning off the table................ from Exuberant Color

I sorted the Tidla fabrics into 4 groups of value to prepare for cutting for the Whimsy Quilt (free Tilda pattern). I haven't pressed them yet so now I'll press them by value groups and do the cutting of each group as soon as they are pressed.

Next to move off the table was the box of 3" finished triangles that I cut from waste pieces (from cutting quarter square triangles on the die cutter) when I was cutting for the hourglass blocks in the quilt top I finished last month.

I ended up with 19 stacks of ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under stash , triangles

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