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April 24, 2013

WIP: A Triangle Baby Quilt

April 24, 2013

My latest Work In Progress (WIP)

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We had a lovely evening with my friend Christine and her daughter Caitlyn.  While Miles and Caitlyn made a mess of the house – to include playing hide-and-seek in my credenza from Korea – Christine and I made a little progress on some sewing projects.
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Christine is in the market for a new serger, and since I love mine, I convinced her to give mine a whirl.  She made a super cute top for one of Caitlyn’s dolls.  And let me just tell you how selfish a sewer I am.  I don’t make Miles anything.  Haven’t since his baby quilt in 2009.  And Christine here is in the middle of making lots of super cute stuff for her kids AND their dolls.

I spent most of the evening slicing up 4″ cuts of fabric into triangles.  Using the fabric stack I pulled earlier, I started cutting the triangles.  What a process.  It took me a lot longer than I thought to cut these things. A. Lot.

I made stacks of triangles by value order and then arranged them up on my design wall.  I added 4 yellow triangles just to break up the pinks and purples that dominate most of the design.  Keeping in mind the lessons I learned from Kari, I tried to keep some definite contrast between the triangles and less contrast in others.

I stitched them in record time (it seems!). I’ll play with the design for a bit and see where it ends up. I’m envisioning a lot of white space. And a polka dot border.

Linked up at: Freshly Pieced

 

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Posted by norine
Filed Under: sewing Tagged: baby, quilt, triangles, wip

Comments

  1. Sarah says

    April 24, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    Omigah. I would love to comment on how beautifully that triangle top is coming along but I’m so distracted by that cuteness hiding in the credenza!! Adorable.

  2. Renee says

    April 25, 2013 at 11:40 am

    Love triangle quilts! I made a pink one last month–my first pink quilt. I like your layout so far!

  3. Jennie @ Jennie's Threads says

    April 26, 2013 at 10:54 am

    I love the way the triangles are looking!

  4. Kari says

    May 2, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    The quilt is looking great! And I’m seriously blushing. I had a lot of fun giving that talk, once I got over being so nervous. I’m thrilled that you got so much out of it!

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