I am not sure why I have always been scared of sewing together triangles. Once I got it out of my mind that I was doing any thing other then sewing straight lines, things got started pretty fast.
Sewing these triangles were simple. Grab 2 put the together and then sew. I realized after I started that my sloppy cutting was going to hurt me. Good thing for me every thing is on a bias and its willing to stretch to fix my issues.
Some are scared of sewing bias. I have long got over that fear. Some say that you must starch the crap out of these triangles to sew them, I did not. I simply make sure every thing is ironed well and sew them while holding them in place as I sew.
Once I got my 2 sewn together I then sewed the 2's into 4's and then sewed 1 4, 1 2, and 1 pair together (I wanted 7 triangles wide) It all went really well I think, I have been inspired from this quilt.
Any way it was fun to sew these triangles and I am going to sew many more in the future.
I have had so much fun making these triangles that I sat down with EQ7 and designed out a couple of patterns to make using triangles forming hexies with them. Can't wait to share them with you one day.
They really are not that hard to sew. I did starch my fabrics as I found a few of my FQs had too much give to them and knew it would make for problems.
ReplyDeleteHi!!!! It is very pretty!!!! I might like this kind of hexie!!!! The others well maybe someday!!!! Oh I do like hexies but putting them together seems scary!!!!
ReplyDeleteLooking good Richard!! I've been very lucky so far (three rows) that most of my triangles have been cut pretty exact. I did have one or two that made me glad I had a little "bias give" to work with. I did starch and I'm glad I did but I don't think it would've been disastrous if I hadnt'. Looking very forward to everyone's reveal. Amazing that with as many entries as there are, every one is so different!!
ReplyDeleteLove this! I love Wishes and it's looking fantastic!
ReplyDeleteLove how your rows turned out,and yes sometimes bias stretch can be your friend!
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