Monday, February 05, 2024

Quilting - new walking foot and triangle quilt


I have acquired a unfinished quilt that would have finished as a very large circular quilt.  I decided to use the pieces to make some smaller quilts.  I used some of the triangles - some are pieced and others are a single layer of fabric - to make rows and then added strips of fabric in between to make up this quilt.  It finished at 41" x 56" which is a good size for donating to the Linus Project.  It was fun to sew and make up rows from the variety of triangles.  I used a cotton sheet as batting and then trimmed a rectangle from the large backing for the back and used the backing as binding as well.  I dug out my walking foot to work on the quilting of the layers of this quilt.  I have had it for over a year and finally had the time and energy to figure out how to use it.  Fortunately, it was pretty much plug and go!!  I just put it on my machine and used it.  Had I know it was this easy I would probably have used it sooner.  Needless to say, I am quite impressed and will be using it more often.  I so easily quilted all three layers to each other with any shifting or stretching of the fabrics so it did not need to be trimmed once it was the quilting was added.  I used it for the binding as well - so neat!!!  So this is a bright and energetic quilt!!  There will be a few more before all those triangle find their new home.  Therese

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