Scrappy Triangles Baby Quilt

Welcome to another TGIFF party! In case you didn't know, TGIFF stands for Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday, but for this week I might need to add an extra F for the word finally! 

In May of 2022, I wrote a blog post that started, "Way back in 2011 I bought the November/December issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine and it had the pattern for this gorgeous scrappy quilt called Scrappy Triangles, designed by Jean Nolte." I then went on to describe where I was with my Scrappy Triangles quilt and that I had decided to make 2 baby quilts instead of a throw size like in the magazine. Well, here I am, 3 years after that post, and 14(!) years after I started cutting squares for the HSTs, and I finally have a finished Scrappy Triangles baby quilt 🎉🎉🎉 

Sometime in the early part of this year, I basted this quilt together at the same time I basted another quilt (though I can't remember which one), with the intention of quilting it soon after. Obviously that didn't happen! It has been sitting on the bed in the sewing room, just patiently waiting.

When it came time to write my project list for WIPS-B-GONE, I put this quilt right at the top of the list. When the challenge started, I was piecing the blocks for the cover quilt for the next Stash Artists pattern (which releases to members on Monday). I only have one sewing machine, and I don't like to be constantly switching back and forth between having it set up for piecing and for free motion quilting, so this quilt waited until I was ready to start quilting the Stash Artists quilt.

Once that quilt was basted and ready for quilting, it was time to bring this quilt out, too. I started each quilting session with 10-20 minutes of this double-loop that I love quilting so much. I used Aurifil 2600 because it's works well with all the different colours in the fabrics.

After those 10-20 minutes, I switched thread and worked on the Stash Artists quilt for the rest of the time I had for quilting. The next day, I switched back to the 2600 thread and did the same thing. It didn't take many days like that to finish quilting the baby quilt! Why had I put it off for so long?

Since this quilt already has every possible colour in it, I dug into my box of scrap binding pieces and just pulled out all the longest pieces. I had way more than I needed, so I removed some of them, then sewed the rest together. Even after removing some of the strips from the pile, the ones I sewed together were still way more than I needed. Oh well, now there's a good long strip already pieced for the next scrap quilt binding.

This quilt looks so much better finished than it did when it was full of basting pins! The WIPS-B-GONE challenge worked its magic for another one of my projects that has been sitting around way too long.

We won't talk about the second Scrappy Triangles baby quilt that is still just a top...

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