I absolutely love the
Blogger's Quilt Festival, hosted by Amy's Creative Side. There are so many beautiful quilts and an overload of inspiration.
I know I've been a bad blogger lately, but I've been saving this one to share for the festival. So without further ado.... Chicopee Triangles!
I've made a couple of equilateral triangle quilts before (
first and
second), though not large triangles. But after I saw the
quilts and tutorial at Fancy Tiger Craft's, I HAD to make this, and I just happened to have a fat quarter bundle of Chicopee sitting pretty on my shelf.
Because I was working with fat quarters rather than the 3/8 yards suggested in the tutorial, I downsized my triangles, and used my
Hex'n'More Ruler to cut the largest triangles I could (about 8"), I included some Kona Bone, and then I pieced some of my scraps to make a few extra triangles. I love the visual interest the pieced and bone triangles add.
I quilted it with concentric circles (easier than it looks, I followed
this tutorial from Blooming Poppies). I think it takes practice and going slow to get perfect circles, I was working a bit fast, some things got a little wibbly wobbly, after the quilt crinkled up, it's hardly noticable.
The back really shows off the quilting:
Quilt Stats:
Dimensions: 63" x 81", the perfect twin size quilt.
Fabric: Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt for FreeSpirit and Robert Kaufman Kona Bone
Batting: Hobbs Heirloom 80/20
Piecing and Quilting done on Husqvarna Viking 835 by me =)
Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll consider nominating my quilt for
Favorite Bed Quilt, I am entry #9
{You can see my entry for the Favorite Quilt Photographer category
HERE.
For the duration of the Blogger's Quilt Festival you can get 20% all items in my shop with the code FESTIVAL20}