Bloggers Quilt Festival - Original design

For the Bloggers Quilt Festival, I'd like to show you an original design, Random Triangles 2.  (However, I spent a lot of time randomizing these triangles, so I'm not sure the title is accurate.)

All the triangles are one half the size of the next largest triangle, so that makes them a bit easier to fit all of them together.

There are also no unbroken seams across the whole quilt, and that is what makes this one tricky to put together.

I quilted it using a varigated thread so that the lines were perpendicular to the hypotenuse of the triangle.

For more information about this quilt please see this post.  To see the Random Triangles 1, see this post.

Random Triangles #2

I smooshed, unpicked, fiddled, cajoled, and finally got a finished top.

The points don't all match up.  In fact, some feel miles away.  But if you don't look too closely, I think it still looks great.

It's my own design...number one can be found here, in softer colors.  It still needs some work though.  I'd love for all the points to mostly match up, so there might be another one of these in a few years.

I brought the quilt to my workplace for some pictures.  The greens there are so green right now, I could almost imagine it was spring.

I did back and forth lines along the hypotenuse of the triangle.  I can tell that I'm getting pretty steady free handing lines that are parallel or perpendicular to my mid-arm, but the ones at 45 degrees are still rather shaky.  It was done with a variegated thread, and I love the result. 

As normal, it is backed with minky and bound in sateen.

Linking up with Finish it Up Friday, TGIFF, Whoop-whoop Friday, Sew Cute Tuesday.

In the knick of time!

I thought I finished this quilt a few days ago.  Not much time to spare for ALYoF, but enough.  Then today I noticed I had missed quilting a square.  And that the binding pulled away in two places.  So I'm finishing it with minutes to spare, but it is finished!

August rollover

1.  Baby quilt, boy.  This is my goal for August's ALYoF (#52).  It's a design of my own, but the last time I did it was when I was just starting to quilt.  That time I lost a lot of my points and I was wondering if this time would be better.  It wasn't.  I still lost a lot of my points, but since I lost so many I'm just going with it.  I will probably try to do this again in the future, but doing more math and more trimming to make sure everything can come out ok.

It might look almost done right now, but there is a seam in the middle that needs to be "dealt" with and will involve some unpicking and smashing into submission.  There is also a seam near an edge, but I think that one should be pretty easy to deal with.

Other things that are still in progress that I worked on this past month...
2. Sunset wall hanging.   I started hand quilting.  I would have done more on vacation but brought the wrong marking utensils.

3. Baby quilt, girl.  This is finished!  I just need to take pictures of it.  I can't believe I haven't managed to do this for a month.

4. QST.  The middle is all quilted and I need to do the borders.  I am going to finish this one before I quilt my primary goal, so it should get done this month.  Below the bottom is shown, because it's easier to see the quilting.

5. Rainbow log cabin.  I started this as another leader/ender project.  It will be a small wall hanging.

Other items on which I didn't make progress this month...

6. Pillow for family room. 

7. scrap quilt. 
8. Simply solids bee quilt.  So while I didn't make any progress on this, I did discover that I don't know what solid my blue is nor where to get any more.  So I need to make some creative decisions.
9. map wall hanging.  
10. Baby girl quilt - possibly stack and whack. 

11. Space robot quilt.

12.  Pluses quilt. 
13. Orphan rocket block 
14. Quilt nautical quilt   
15. Quilt Christmas quilt 
16. Jeweled floors. 
17. Lost piece (almost whole cloth quilt). 
18. Winter quilt. 
19. Baby quilt. 
20. A small pouch.
21. A door stop.