My first quilt
Mar. 31st, 2016 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frogs_of_warI made my first quilts every these last two days. One was made of paper (to cover the wifi extender that glows like a lighthouse all night), three are pockets sized (and will be pockets on an apron for my mother) and the final one is about 16"x22" (to wrap around my tablet at night because its power switch glows).
I used the exploding block method Charis shared with us (sew two same-sized squares together, cut one corner to corner, iron flat, sew on a square the same size as the new square, repeat), but I didn't like the massive triangles near the outside. I figured out that if I sewed two of these exploding squares together, those outside triangles become two. I also like it best with lines of solid color between the squares.
(I was going to put in pictures that matched what I was talking about, but instead you'll have to follow the links. Let me know if you can see them)
If I can find time to make a lap sized quilt, Charis, what's your excuse?
I used the exploding block method Charis shared with us (sew two same-sized squares together, cut one corner to corner, iron flat, sew on a square the same size as the new square, repeat), but I didn't like the massive triangles near the outside. I figured out that if I sewed two of these exploding squares together, those outside triangles become two. I also like it best with lines of solid color between the squares.
(I was going to put in pictures that matched what I was talking about, but instead you'll have to follow the links. Let me know if you can see them)
If I can find time to make a lap sized quilt, Charis, what's your excuse?
