Quilt 5: finished

I've finally finished this quilt (and it's companion). The quilt is for my niece, who was just born this morning.

The pattern is my own. I saw a lot of random square quilts that I loved, but wanted to try something different. So random triangles it was! If you look closely you can see that not all the points line up and there are some bunches were I had a hard time putting two large pieces together. I think it might need to be made once more to work out the kinks, but overall I'm very happy with how it turned out!

However, we recently moved to the same area as my two- and four-year-old nieces and one of the first things I noticed is how they love their baby dolls. So I thought I'd make a matching blanket for the baby doll of the newborn's sister. Putting the binding on took a lot longer than I was expecting as I did it the "correct" way with a whip-stitch for the first time. I put it in the wash last night - phew! I just finished it in time.

Quilts 5-7: update

Quilt 5: Finished! But then I decided to make a similar(ish) doll quilt out of the scraps for their daughter. So the package isn't completely finished.

Quilt 6: The top is finished! Now I need to make a back and quilt it. I've figured out how I'll quilt it, but don't know what I'm doing for a back yet. I have a lot of the brown fabric, but a small embellishment would be nice.

Quilt 7: most of the fabric is cut (see previous post) but I need some more grey. This week as also become rather busy, so I'm not sure if I'll get to it again.

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Quilt 5: quilting

I started quilting the random triangles quilt last night. It turns out that I'm not very good at straight lines. I also didn't like the washable fabric pencil that I had...it was too hard to see. I did go with a variegated thread, although that might be hard to tell from the pictures.

So my question is, how small should the biggest non-quilted piece be? My guess that my 5"x5" is too big. Then comes my next question...should I just add more lines to make smaller rectangles or should I go from point to point of the rectangles to make triangles? I was originally going to do point to point because that would make some nice random triangles, but then I realized that the hypotenuses (hypotenui??) would be going along different lines that the top triangles and it seems like that would be distracting.

I also managed to fold over a little piece of the backing and quilt it. Luckily it was just a tiny corner so I didn't have to remove the entire seam.

I just linked up with Freshly Pieced if you want to see some other fun quilts and works in progress!

Quilt 5: the back

Here's the back. It still needs to be trimmed up.

Quilt 5: top finished

I finished the top! You'll notice some additional triangles overlayed on some of the bigger triangles.

I also got more fabric. The back for the quilt above, and fabric for two more quilts. (There's a spring break sale at all the fabric stores.) I know what I'm doing with the colorful solids...they will be part of a quilt with those black polka dots from a while ago. I have some ideas for the white/grey quilt, but I keep changing my mind with exactly what I'm going to do.

P.S. Should I quilt it using white thread or pink thread?

Quilt 5: top almost finished

The top is almost finished! I have a few details that I need to add yet. Not everything quite worked out like I was hoping...not all the points of the triangles are points, and not all the points meet in the same place. But at the same time, at first glance the errors aren't too obvious.I'm hoping to go to the fabric store tomorrow because there is a sale this week. But the car had a "check engine" light come on, so it depends on how serious that ends up being.

Quilt 5: beginning layout

The next quilt is coming along nicely! It looks like it will be a little larger than I expected, but oh well.

This is the first one that I've designed myself. There are a bunch of cool random square quilts, but no random triangle quilts. So I accepted the challenge. I'm just starting to get to the extra challenging part where things need to actually fit together.

The light isn't great in this picture. I think the colors are brighter in real life. I guess that's what comes from being in a basement though.

Quilt 5: flags

I finished my first set of triangle flags. I started to do the next set, but need some pins and don't know where they are right now. I started looking through the moving boxes and found many other useful things (such as sheets) but no pins.

Quilt 5: pieces

I have all my pieces cut! Now to start putting them together.

Quilt 5: cutting

Today I packed up my sewing machine for the move back to Michigan. I had planned on the time without it though, which is why I hadn't cut anything for this quilt yet. My "comfy" sewing/computer chair is also gone, so I moved to the living room to watch a movie and start cutting.

I ran out of orange and therefore had to make some last minute changes to where I'm putting which colors, but I think everything will still work out.

Quilt 5

For the next few days I'm working on quilt 6 while I still have my sewing machine, and then once it is packed for the move I'll start working on quilt 5. Here's Flurry testing out the fabric to make sure it is nappable.