triangles

Making progress....................... from Exuberant Color

I cut the last group of rectangles for the integrated border on the floral quilt. A couple of them are directional so they won't be used on the side borders.

Next was finishing the layout. I'm using the same fabric in all 4 corners and I didn't pin on the bottom 2.

There are 10 columns now and I got 7 of them sewn into rows. Three more to go and then all of the cross seams.

I did cleanup outside while it was in the 50s yesterday. I have 3 pots to dump today and then ...

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Beginning to cut............. from Exuberant Color

After finding enough choices for the border rectangles on the floral quilt, I had to press all of the fabrics. I got pieces cut from 9 of the fabrics. I have 26 pieces here and I need 36. I will be over-cutting so that I have plenty of choices when I do the layout of them on the perimeter. I'm going to use mostly dark fabrics so the integrated border will show up slightly as a frame.

Since I wasn't ready to sew the top yet, I finished knitting another dishcloth last night. This is a newer color ...

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First layout of QST blocks................ from Exuberant Color

My son and daughter in law came over yesterday and gave me my belated birthday present, help cleaning the garage. What would have taken me a week and lots of indecision got done in 3 hours. They also brought beef/barley soup and I baked some beer bread.

Last night, even though I was tired I decided to get all 80 blocks up on the design wall. Half of the blocks have a dotted triangle and 3 florals, the other half have 4 floral triangles. I alternated the 2 kinds of blocks which resulted in the dotted triangles all being ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under triangles

20 additional blocks..................... from Exuberant Color

Last night was a productive time. I got 20 more blocks sewn for a total of 80 blocks now. With an 8 x 10 layout the quilt would measure 48" x 60".

Here are the other 60 blocks. I can start working on the layout of the quilt now.

We're supposed to get our first snowfall today but the temperature will probably go high enough in the afternoon to melt all of it. I brought my pots of Begonias and Geraniums into the garage. I also pulled the 2 Geraniums from the pots on the porch steps and will ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month ago. under nature , triangles

15 of 60 blocks................ from Exuberant Color

Last night I sewed all of the rest of the quarter square triangle blocks that I had ready. This is one of each of four blocks alike. They are only 6" blocks so 60 blocks would only make a quilt 36" x 60".

I pressed all 60 blocks.

I had a bag of odds and ends of floral fabrics so I went through it and pulled several that are big enough to cut the quarter square triangles. All of these are pressed now so I can do some cutting today.

I have been showing photos of the cacti by the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month ago. under nature , triangles

4 more.................. from Exuberant Color

There are 16 more blocks sewn, 4 alike of 4 different combinations of fabric. I searched for more fabrics to cut while I did laundry yesterday morning.

I also cut more of the 2" finished triangles from the waste fabric. Now I wish I knew what I did with the first stack. I know I had them upstairs when I took a photo of them a few days ago and then I carried them to the basement to look for a small storage box. I didn't find a box but.....where did I put the triangles?

Rain most of ...

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Finally.......some sewing............... from Exuberant Color

There are 4 blocks alike of each combination of 4 quarter square triangles.

I put one of each of the combinations that are already sewn up on the design wall. I was sure I was going to get more sewn in 2 hours but just 24 blocks are done.

I spent the morning yesterday outside finishing the tomato plant clean up. It took a long time to cut all of the long branches off the SunGold tomato plant. They were about 6-8 feet long and tangled with each other. I couldn't believe the size of the roots on that ...

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And still cutting.................. from Exuberant Color

This is one of each of the 6" finished floral squares. There are 4 of almost all of them so I think I have 150 cut so far so I need 9 more fabrics (or duplicates) if I make 4 quilts. I'm considering dropping one of my ideas and then I would only need 5 more. No final decisions at this point.

I need 13 more sets of 3" triangles and I can get then out of some of the smaller pieces of fabric.

Meanwhile I still haven't cleaned off the cabinet top so I haven't been ...

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Still cutting................. from Exuberant Color

I had a stack of fabrics to press before I could continue cutting 6.5" squares. I got 13 more cut with a pile waiting to go to the die cutter. There are 4 squares of each of most of these fabrics. There are 2 or 3 quilts in the future to use all of them. I will need 177 squares if I make all 3 quilts and I have 96 cut so far.

I'm also cutting 3" finished half square triangles for one of the quilts. Lots more strips are also waiting to be die cut for this ...

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Not much progress.................... from Exuberant Color

I got a few strips cut for quarter square triangles while I did a load of laundry. I didn't get any farther, too much else needed to be taken care of. Thanks to everyone who weighed in on my dotted fabric question yesterday.

It was a cloudy day yesterday with rain late in the day. I took this photo with just the daylight coming in the east picture window. The medium rose plant has some blooms and the champagne color in the striped pot should be blooming today.

84 years, didn't that used to sound old? Like ancient ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 1 week ago. under nature , stash , triangles

Adding dots?................... from Exuberant Color

I have purchased Kaffe Fassett "Spot" fabric over the years as he keeps adding new colors. I thought maybe they might work with the floral fabrics.

I guess I won't know unless I try it. I pressed the fabrics and cut some triangles.

I changed out some of the florals with dotted fabric. I have lots more cutting to do so I can think about this. Any opinions?

There was a waste triangle at each end when I cut the quarter square triangles and it was the right size to cut a 2" half square triangle. I will start ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 1 week ago. under triangles

Still searching and cutting................ from Exuberant Color

I thought maybe I should add more light triangles for this quilt so I added a Philip Jacobs floral.

Here are the rest of the triangles that wouldn't fit on the table. I only have enough triangles cut to make into 48 blocks so far. That would only make a quilt 36" x 48" so I have a long way to go.

I went though more Philip Jacobs fabric and the group of Lille which Kaffe did the coloration for. I think these 5 are going to work.

I spent about 3 hours outside yesterday picking the rest of ...

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Busy, busy..................... from Exuberant Color

Back in mid-June I was sorting my floral fabrics to prepare some for a de-stash sale. I had 2 stacks that I was keeping and I finally got around to cutting them. First I cut an 11" strip off every piece that was large enough.

There is enough length in this group to cut another strip if necessary.

This group was shorter lengths or had squares cut out of them from the time I was making my Kaffe Seed Packet quilt. I can still get cuts from them, just not as many as I will get from the larger pieces ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 1 week ago. under stash , triangles

Little butterflies................... from Exuberant Color

It took 2 hours to sew 30 ~~Broken Dishes~~ Hourglass blocks, 2" finished size. This is a possible layout. I'll know more after I start assembling parts of it. There will be spacers of the same background fabric between the 'little butterflies'.

I spent an hour with garden clean up yesterday. It was cool enough that I needed a jacket. There were quite a few branches to pick up as well as pulling out the spreading bellflowers and goldenrod. I think I'll go out and clip the dead flower stalks on the hostas this year. I read you ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , triangles

Pinwheels................ from Exuberant Color

It looks just like yesterday's photo but this is the sewn top. Right now it is 60" x 72" which falls into the size quilts I prefer to make now. If I add borders (to please someone who would like a larger quilt) it will be in the size range that I no longer want to do the quilting on. I have the fabric that would work for a border, I just don't know that I want to push myself to do it. This will hang on the design wall for a few days.

Meanwhile I was putting ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

A layout, maybe not the final......................... from Exuberant Color

I had a plan....since there are 10 different combinations of fabrics and there are 5 blocks in each row, all I had to do is design the top 2 rows and then offset the next set of 2 rows 2 blocks to the right, and repeat for the third set of 10 blocks. Now when I see the photo I can see I have a diagonal path of the plainer prints and the busier prints are also grouped together. I could say I did that on purpose to give it a focal point....but I didn't. I have ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

3 blocks and quilts gifted..................... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday turned into kind of a social day so I only got 3 blocks sewn. The 2 light fabrics on the left haven't been used in the previous 27 blocks but the one on the right is a repeat. I now have 30 blocks.

A friend in town has lost several family members in the last year so I told her to come over and pick out a quilt. I asked what her favorite color was and she said green. I pulled out the one on the left and she loved it. Then I pulled out the one on ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

9 of 27 blocks.................. from Exuberant Color

I turned on the iron yesterday and pressed the rest of the pinwheel blocks that were sewn a couple nights ago. There are 3 alike of each of these on the design wall. I have 3 more blocks ready to sew. I still haven't decided whether it will be a 30 block quilt or a 36 block quilt.

Phone shopping was on my list yesterday. I have an app on my cellphone that sends transmissions to the doctor's office from my new pacemaker. The phone I currently had is 6 years old and the operating system (OS) would ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

Pinwheels and vintage cookware.................. from Exuberant Color

I turned on the iron on my little ironing station in my main floor studio. First I pressed the 12 pinwheel blocks I had sewn the night before.

Next I pressed all of the squares I had sewn a couple nights ago. I went ahead and sewed the pinwheel blocks too but didn't turn the iron back on to press them yet. Now I have 28 twelve inch pinwheel blocks and it is time to decide what size quilt I am making. 5 x 5 isn't an option because I don't make square throw quilts. That leaves ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under food , kaffe fabric , triangles

A few pinwheels................... from Exuberant Color

I sewed a few of the pinwheel blocks yesterday (12") but mostly was reading yesterday.

I'm officially done mowing my grass, forever. I had a battery powered mower and the charger got caught on the rope on my garage door and was yanked out of the socket and cracked when it hit the cement floor in the garage. The mower was 25 years old and the company no longer stocks parts for their mowers of that age. I had intended to quit at the end of this year anyway. A neighbor on the street behind me mowed my grass ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , triangles

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