Blogger's Quilt Festival- Nearly 1000 Triangle Quilt

If you're arriving here from the Blogger's Quilt Festival- Welcome!  I'm Rachel, civil engineer turned stay-at-home-mom to two toddlers, living in sunny California!  I started quilting when I was 17 and it has become my life's true passion.  I think about fabric and patterns all day long and itch to get to my sewing machine when my littles are resting :)

My second entry into the Blogger's Quilt Festival is my Nearly 1000 Triangles Quilt.  I made this quilt for my sister's high school graduation/going away to college gift.  I had her pick out the pattern to ensure it was something she loved and that it would be used in her dorm room!

When I started picking out fabrics I consciously left out any true greens, and tried to use more solids than I normally do.  When I started to layout the triangles though I realized it was looking flat, so I threw in a lime green solid and a few other greens and it made all the difference!  I used Rachel of Stitched In Color's triangle quilt tutorial.  This was my second triangle quilt-- the first being a small baby quilt-- and wow do you need a lot of triangles to make a large twin sized quilt!

The triangles are all from my stash or scrap bins, the binding is scrappy, and the backing is an Ikea alphabet print that had been a duvet cover (I cut it into two) with 3 large scraps along the long edge to make it wide enough.  The alphabet duvet cover came with a pillowcase, so I gave her the pillowcase too.  On the pillowcase I outlined in embroidery thread one of the H's since that's her first initial.

Sewing iscosceles triangles together meant a lot of seam ripping for me!  I love the final result but it may be awhile until I make a quilt like this again.  I quilted it on my home sewing machine in a V formation along one side of each seam.

My sister says she gets many many compliments on her quilt and she loves it so it was all worth it!  Here's a pic of her dorm room!  I love to see a quilt in action :)

I'm entering this quilt into The Large Quilt Category.  Thanks Amy for hosting the Blogger's Quilt Festival and to you for stopping by to see my quilt!  I am so happy to finally be participating!