I am done with Thangles.

I am done with Thangles. Guess I could call it the summer of the Thangles. The process is super easy to sew. The results are dead on...but then so are my HST I make using the EZ Angle ruler.
The reason I am done with the Thangles is the paper removal process. I mean geezzzz...after pinning the fabric to the paper and sewing and then cutting apart and then removing the paper and then the pressing...it takes too much time!! But of course it did not help that I had 648 of these to do. I should have broke it up into small chunks.  But I also wanted a real good mix of the colors.

I decided to make the Medallion Quilt instead. It is in the book entitled:
 Friendship Triangles authored by Edyta Sitar for Laundry Basket Quilts.
(http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com)
It is so much more simple to put together then the Constellation Throw pattern. Here are only 8 rows of the 14 needed to show you.
I really like the random blue and green and red that pop up occasionally.
Scrappy is great!!! And I only need 420 units instead of 576. So I still will have some "seed" for another small project.

The quilt I was going to make did not happen. I had issues with the unit layouts. Even after I resorted to my graph paper and trying to draw out the pattern. I really wanted to make the Constellation Throw. But stopped after 4 block quarters.
I have them sewn together and will make a place mat or something from it. I do love the colors.

 Nice full basket of HST

 I do the Thangles in chain piecing. It is really a lot of fun. I really like lining things up and keeping all the color together.
Also I have moved my sewing area back around so I am sitting straight on to the picture window again. I have so much more room it seems.

 And use an open toed foot if you have one. It makes the lines easier to see.

I had a fellow quilter friend make me an ironing pad for the TV tray. Love it!! And I am no longer putting water in my irons. Bonnie Hunter is so right. A spritz of water on stubborn fabric wrinkles works great!!!
XOXOXOXO
Subee

Little Pyramids Table Topper by Edyta Sitar

Our guild is planning on doing a Friendship Triangle exchange as found in Edyta Sitar's book of the same title. Three of us are planning on getting the "fires" started by having a quilt made or at least begun to show what we want to do!!

 I had made all those Thangles a few weeks back with a common batik background and used every batik strip I had received in a Yahoo swap last year! I have the little center area all done. It only took one afternoon!!!

 I was a bit anal about my triangles...meaning NO REPEATS!!! And I had enough made that I just clipped one triangle off the Thangle unit and set that unit aside.
The end result is pretty but I need to make another one with more darks and less mediums. Do you all know that we quilters tend to buy mediums more than any other shade??? I really do try not to anymore. Another lesson learned from watching TV quilt shows.

 My work area stayed pretty neat while I worked. Yes, I hoard telephone books now. I really love making string blocks. And when I just want some mindless sewing to do, I make some string blocks. Just for fun!!!

 It made the assembly a bit slower but I trimmed the dogears off and removed the papers one HST at a time. Again, me being anal about where a fabric was going. The topper has eleven rows of eleven HST's. So I just did each row as I went. It worked for me.

 I quilted this little beauty after I finished quilting the Cinnamon Triangle quilt. This was another quilt inspired by Edyta Sitar.  It is 34" square.

 And here are the two tiny beauties together. Yes, there are string blocks in the corners. I am finding all kinds of places for my growing collections!

 Cinnamon Triangles is all done. It is quilted, labeled and bound.

 I am pretty sure I will be giving this to GD #1 for her November BD. But until I decide on that for sure I will just slip this one away for future determination.

21 baskets all waiting to be put into their envelopes and mailed back to the swappers. DH took me to the PO on Tuesday. I had four heavy canvas bags. He really made that trip so easy on me. Thanks James!!!
XOXOXOOX Subee

Pfeffernuese Inspired and Thangles

All done!!! My Pfefferneuse inspired quilt I am calling Cinnamon Triangles.
It is now 56" square and I am very pleased with the adventure and results.
My biggest thanks to Our Bonnie Hunter for this pattern. I loved the units!!

 Monday night was a planning meeting for our guild's next meeting year. Games, exchanges and ideas flowed like lightening! It was a very inspiring meeting. I always seem to leave more anxious to sew than before I came. Yet I do not see how I could love sewing any more than I already do. I am staying up later and later and have the machine humming everyday as it is!!!

We are going to be doing a triangle exchange every month. Inspired by the show where we went and listened to Edtya Sitar. And we all fell in love with her color sense. Her hubby does all the cooking and housework so she can sew. How to get mine to do the same??????
I had three different programs/methods for making these little gems.
(not counting my EZ Angle ruler)

The planning group have each picked a quilt to make to get the juices flowing for the other guild members. We want a lot of participation in this undertaking. Variety makes for a much more interesting quilt!!!
And being the over achiever I am I had to actually start on a quilt using what has yet to be exchanged!!! What's a gal to do?
Why use up those batik 2 1/2" strips to make some triangles with the Thangles method.

Chain piecing is the way to do these! I made 288 units in only one day of sewing.
I only stabbed/impaled myself a few times with pins before I changed the direction of those dangerous points. HA!
And you need to see where you are going. So I advise an open toed foot as opposed to your normal 1/4" foot. You need to see where the sewing line is at all times.

Such a satisfying photo. An endless line of units being fed through the machine.

 And of course I had to cut one to see how it looks.

We are going to use Autumn colors only for the exchange. I am not sure if we are going to ask for batiks only or ask to have a few batiks mixed in with the quilting cottons. They do play well together.
XOXOXOOXO Subee