Saturday, October 15, 2011

Crumb Quilt-Along #5

Due to circumstances beyond my control (a.k.a. "real life"), I'm a week behind on Jo's Crumb Quilt-Along. So this week I've been working on liberated blocks made with triangles. When I rummaged through my drawer of white scraps, I discovered that I had a lot of small, white triangles.

I paired them with rectangles like this and sewed down the hypotenuse of each triangle using an approximate 1/4 inch seam.


Then I cut away the excess colored fabric . . .


. . . and pressed open the resultant square.



I found that I could also pair single white triangles with any colored scrap of approximately the same size.


Here are some of the 1/2 square triangles I made:



 And here are the three blocks I finished:




I like these blocks, but even though I did them without any measuring, they don't look very wonky. I suppose that's because I started out with the precut white triangles.

I look forward to doing some Log Cabin style blocks next, and hope to be caught up to everyone else by the end of the week.

6 comments:

Coloradolady said...

I like your blocks! What a great use of the white HST. Pretty colors too! Have a great Sunday!

Angie in SoCal said...

Oh, those are darling! I like how bright they are with the white. Love the name of your blog!

Quilter Kathy said...

Very cute blocks!

Deb A said...

Very cute! Love that middle blue one.

Jo said...

Your blocks are looking great. It was great that you came up with a way to use those extra triangles...that's what crumbing is all about. :)

Catholic Bibliophagist said...

Thanks, ladies. You are all so very encouraging!

This morning I've been working on the log cabin blocks and hope to be able to post a link before I have to go to work.