What To Do With Leftovers?

As I said in my post yesterday, I had LOTS of left over triangle units.  

I also had too many of the white base units cut. 

 I did not want to show what I did with the quilt left over triangles until it had been gifted 

but I can share now.

I made a pair of pillow cases using the triangle units for the cuff.

Here they are folded up.

Of course I forgot these at home so will need to bring them with me next time we visit.

Hmmm...that didn't use up nearly enough.  

I thought I should make a baby quilt and 

when I went to do that I realized I needed to make a few more.

No problem, I had LOTS of the bases left over too.  

This is pre border.

I added an aqua border to this one as it felt more like a baby to me.

Close up.  I still need to quilt this but at least I used up all the gray triangle units!

Oh, but there were still SO MANY base units left.  

I showed this before but could not really talk about why I made it so here goes.  

I used up the left over base units making this baby quilt.  

I had been cutting and cutting up my vintage sheet hoard so 

used some of the squares to make this quilt top.  

Somehow though, it needed more color.  

I decided to use colorful borders for this and I love how it came out.  

It would have been good with colorful bases and white triangles too but 

I needed to use what I had cut already.  

So tell me, do you like these? I need to quilt them both.  

If you want to make a VS one and have the pattern, 

I have squares I can sell you as a pack to make the triangles.  

If you want the same borders I have sheets you could choose from too 

(although not the one in the photo).  

Just shoot me an email (mamaspark@gmail.com) . 

The pattern is called Minimal Triangles.  

~XOP~

The Wedding Quilt

I finally get to share the wedding quilt with all of you!!  

I asked the bride and groom to please give me some ideas for quilts they liked 

and that I told them I would choose from those.  

I chose the pattern Minimal Triangles.  

It was not really difficult but I was making a HUGE quilt so there were a LOT of triangles.  

The size I wanted to make was not a listed size so I was not really sure how many I needed.  

At my retreat in July, everyone kept asking me.  

Finally my sweet SIL figured it out 

(although that number ended up not being right either).  

I ended up using 600 triangle units!  

The chosen colors were gray and white. 

 I put a few pops of aqua in to break it up.  

It was a little boring to make so many of the same thing in the same colors.  

The pattern is a good one but 

she doesn't really tell you how to line up the rows so that the ends work out right.  

You add a white one on each end and then cut them once the entire top is put together.  

I ended up taking 2 rows apart and re-sewing them but that was not too bad.  

So without further ado, here are some photos!

It turned out to be 100" X 112"

My friend, Liz, did the quilting.  I had Celtic knots done and I love how the quilting came out!

I hand embroidered this label on the back.

(I used some sparkly thread too)

I was tickled to find this border fabric.

It is light gray triangles with a few teal ones on the charcoal background.

Perfect!

They opened it after the rehearsal party was done.

BOTH of them wanted it on their bed so the next day I put it on the bed.

It looks great with the pillow covers I made for the shower.

It seems to be Mitch approved too.

~XOP~