Quilt number 11 - Triangles

This quilt was for a colleague at work who had just had a baby.  I kept the cutting simple by using triangles, I made 6 1/2 inch squares (conveniently the width of my large ruler) and then cut them diagonally.

The fabric had to be gender neutral as as I didn't know the sex of the baby before it was born and wanted to get a head start on making it, not that is made much difference to the finishing time as it was still only completed a couple of months after the birth!

The printed fabric is from Lewis and Irenes's spring 2015 collection "Safari". I added solids of green and yellow with some makower spraytime which is my go to fabric when I need a plain fabric but want it to be just a little more interesting. It ended up being quite a low density quilt but hopefully that will be mice a soothing for the baby.

I struggled for a little while to get happy with the layout of the pieces as I was making it up as I went along but also had directional fabric.

I also added a strip of patchwork to the back as I had some squares left over. To speed up the quilting I machine quilted it in a meandering free motion style and then used did some in the ditch quilting for the first time round the border using my special foot.

Reverse of the quilt

In the ditch quilting