I made this quilt top at the start of 2013. It was my first
attempt at half square triangles and was supposed to be a baby quilt as a gift
for a colleague. However, when it was finished, I didn’t like it – some
triangle points had disappeared and it was just “too old” to be a baby quilt. A
more suitable quilt was made and this one was put away.
Over a year later, I dug it out of the UFO pile and decided
to try to rescue it. I couldn’t do
anything about the missing points, but by making it a bit bigger, I thought it
might be a suitable quilt for Project Linus. I added a couple of borders,
using half square triangle cornerstones to save having to learn how to mitre
corners, and actually started to like the quilt.
I added a fleece backing and quilted it in a straight line,
edge-to-edge grid using Aurifil 50 wt grey (shade 2600) in the needle and variegated blue (shade 3770) in
the bobbin. For the binding I had not quite enough of orange chevron fabric so
I pieced it with random inserts of solid orange to make it to the required
length.
Now the quilt is finished, I rather like it. Even though it
is still slightly pointless when it comes to the half square triangles, it is no
longer pointless when it comes to finding a good home.
I think you are being hard on yourself- only you would know that some of those points are a little lacking in their pointy-ness! It looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteOoh my gosh I think it's fab! Very cool and retro
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