Bloggers Quilt Festival - Triangle Sampler

I am thrilled to be contributing to the Fall 2013 Blogger's Quilt Festival!

My contribution is a recent finish, my Triangle Sampler wall hanging.

It started with a bag of mis-cut squares purchased at the Keepsake Quilting annual tent sale and some natural Essex Linen.  My goal was to practice triangles and play with linen.  

 And play I did!  I made hourglass, flying geese, half-square triangles, zig-zag and other triangle combinations (that probably have official quilt block names?).   I even cracked open a couple of the beautiful quilt books I have been adding to my quilt library.  There are Migration, Bowties and Blooms and Three in the Breeze all by John Q. Adams from the Shape Workshop book.  I also used Amanda Sasikirana's Criss Cross Triangle and Monika Wintermantel's Front & Center blocks from Modern Blocks.

Fitting all the various sized triangles with some negative space for eye resting was a good challenge for me.  For the quilting, I considered just sewing lots of straight vertical lines (I love that look).  However, I thought a little more dimension might be interesting, so I drew four random triangles on the quilt and just started echoing at about 1/2" apart.  Some of the triangle intersections were a challenge.

Although this is a wall hanging, the back actually shows the quilting nicely.

Looking around my little sewing/office/guest bedroom (blogged about here), it was obvious I needed something quilty on the walls.  Much better don't you think?

Summary of the Triangle Sampler:

Size:  36" by 48"

Fabrics:  Essex Linen in natural, scrap neutrals, Kona Snow, Curry and Ash and a little Comma by Zen Chic
Thread:  Pieced and quilted with my go-to Aurafil 2021Cream

Quilting:  On my domestic sewing machine with my trusty walking foot.

Thank you for stopping by KayakQuilting!   I feel so fortunate (and inspired!) to be part of a wonderful community of talented, sharing people.  Please join me in supporting all the other quilters participating in this festival by viewing their blogs, nominating your favorites and voting! 

Kathy