Quilting - 12" squares using triangles and strips sewn to a substrate

 Our Christmas plans had to be changed up because of weather and so many having the flu so I decided to take the time to sew on a few projects I had on the go. 

I made up another 12 of these 12" squares.  I have already made a stack of twelve and needed 24 to make a quilt top.  The substrates are ones I got from my Mom.  I started with a tringle in one corner trimmed to the edge, covered the inside edge with a strip and stitched through all the layers.  Pressed the strip over and added another one.  I made strips up as I needed them by sewing pieces together.  These are mostly poly cottons with a few cottons strips added in where ever they worked best. I have the scraps mostly stored in ziploc bags by colour so I just make piles and start picking a colour, trim the pieces if necessary and stitch them into a strip long enough to cover the substrated.  Repeat as many times as necessary to cover the area to the next corner.  I rough cut a triangle and sew it on to finish the square.  I am looking forward to sewing these all together and making the quilt top!!  

Therese

Quilting - donation quilt using scrappy triangles and a fleece backing

This is the last of the triangles I have to make up into a quilt.  The top was finished a while back and I backed it with a fleece.  I just laid the quilt top on the fleece good side down and pinned it all the way around and cut off the extra fleece on two sides.  I stitched all the way around leaving a 8" gap and then turned it inside out.  Pressed it and then stitched all the way around at about 1/8" which closed up the opening.  I then stitched around the inside of several of the triangles to secure the two to each other.  Probably about 20 or so around all the quilt.  Should be enough to keep them together after laundering.  This one will be donated to Project Linus.  Therese