Around Christmas I got it in my head that I wanted to use equilateral triangles from the charm squares. So, I ordered myself an equilateral triangle ruler from Amazon Prime so that it would be ready at home for me when I got back from my Christmas travel.
I started by cutting out equilateral triangles from the charm squares and arranging them on my design wall. I originally wanted them in rainbow order but quickly changed my mind to put the colors randomly on the wall.
My first design failed because I didn't have enough triangles:
So I settled on this instead:
When I sewed it up, it got so much smaller! In the picture below, the top half is sewn up in rows:
I felt bad about all the scraps from cutting out the triangles, so I kind of turned this into a "no waste" challenge and I sewed the scraps into rectangles to use as a border:
It didn't feel right like that so I added corners and the triangles at the end of the rectangle rows (there weren't enough of the right size scraps to continue the rectangles all the way around the border).
I was ready to sew it up as a square quilt but then my quilt talked to me (weird, I know) and told me that it wanted to be rotated 90 degrees and turned into a rectangle quilt! Who was I to argue with what the quilt wanted?
I decided on a navy blue backing:
But there wasn't quite enough of the navy, so I added the rest of the scraps from cutting the triangles and a piece of dark pink:
My first thought was just to quilt this quilt in a spiral so that I could be done with it, but the quilt spoke to me again and told me that it wanted all the triangles quilted in a special way. I turned to my Angela Walters' books for "Shape by Shape" quilting for inspiration and this is what I came up with:
Looking at the back side:
Now for the white background... I was going to stipple it because I am super fast at doing that, but the quilt told me it wanted pebbles! I have never quilted pebbles on a quilt before but I figured that I would just go for it!
I love the look of the pebbles!
Here is the completed quilt: (the completed size is 36" x 41")
This ended up being such a fun challenge! I love the end quilt and I had so much fun during the creative process. This definitely stretched my quilting skills (which is one of my goals) and I love the way that the final quilting looks.
Thanks to Quilting Jetgirl for hosting the Alison Glass challenge and therefore encouraging me to find a way to use my charm squares!
