#rainbow triangles quilt

[tj-crochets]

The rainbow quilt top is finished!!! It still needs ironing, but look at it!!! I’m so happy with how it turned out

Just the sewing (and the ironing in between rounds of sewing) took about 7 and a half hours, and that’s not counting the initial ironing and cutting out all the triangles, or the time it took to arrange them in this pattern

[wyrmscraft]

Bah humbug. I hate squaring up half square triangles. Slivers of fabric all the way around that if you don’t trim off, make your quilt top wavey :(

72 hst blocks in this top, which honestly isn’t terrible. Some quilts are all hsts and that sucks balls.

I suppose I could have made my hsts in strips and cut them that way, but I was trying to follow a written pattern instead of mathing a photo out myself.

[leo-fie]

Progress Pride Flag Quilt Block Pattern & Tutorial

Don't you just love the flag of our people? Do you have an inner grandma that years to make stuff? Do you want to combine these two things and make a queer quilt?

Well, I've got you.

Behold the pattern! And my lack of graphic skills, so I drew it on paper!

Basically it's a bunch of rectangles, one half square triangle and a fuzzy cut circle. I don't know shit about quilting and I was able to come up with it. Why centimeter, you ask? Because I'm German and that's what I'm familiar with. Why weird measurements and not jelly rolls and layer cakes and stuff? Because I'm German and quilting is not really a thing here.

Onto the tutorial!

You'll need:

A scrap of fabric of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, light blue, pink, white each

additional fabric for the border

Cutting mat, quilting ruler, roll cutter

sewing machine

thread

pins

double sided interfacing

iron and ironing board

fabric sheers

compasses

Step 1: Cut everything. Duh. We'll take care of the circle later, don't worry about that now. The half square triangle is exactly what it sounds like. A square and then you cut it diagonally. That's why I didn't give the length of the hypotenuse.

(Note: I'm making two blocks at the same time, that's why there's so much fabric. Also this is a middle of the night project, hence the lighting.)

I'm using all kinds of different fabrics, different weights and drapes, some stretchy, some transparent, so I needed to interface some of them.

Step 2: Sew the rainbow together. 0,5cm seam allowance on everything, that's exactly the edge of the foot on your machine. Double and triple check that everything is facing the right direction before sewing. The seam of yellow and green does not get sewn fully, only 21,5 cm! That's important later! Also backtack there. Don't forget to iron.

Step 3: Sew the strips to the half square triangle. For this you have to switch between the sewing machine and the ironing board constantly. Attach the shorter strip diretly to one side of the HST, iron it open. The second strip of the same colour gets attatched to the other side of the HST and the first strip. Look at the pictures closely if you're unsure how that works. Also the strips are longer than the triangle. We'll square that up later.

All strips attatched will look like this. See how the two strips meet at the tip!

Step 4: Cut the rainbow part to size. The length between yellow and green is 22cm long. The shorter seam from before plus some seam allowance. The outsides of red and purple are 44,5cm long. These two points are the beginning and end of your cutting line. You will cut a little triangle from every single colour. Do this slowly and carefully. Maybe your fabrics have stretched a bit (mine did). Don't worry, it will be ok.

Step 5: The Y seam, part one. Y seams are tricky, but there's only one for this block. So put your strips part on your rainbow part and line them up so that the tip of the strip part overhangs the seam between yellow and green by about half a centimeter. Remember that it's not about the edges of the fabric, but where the seam will be. But don't sew all the way! Leave 0,5cm at the tip!

You can also mark on your strip piece two lines 0,5cm from the edges of the black. They should form a little square at the tip. There they meet is where the actual tip on the finished block will be. So place this spot directly on the seem between yellow and green and only sew right up to it. Not beyond.

Step 6: The Y seam, part two. Now, fold both the rainbow part and the strips part in half and if you've done the last step correctly, the remaining two edges will allign. Pin and sew.

I can't explain it better than I've done here, I'm sure there are tutorias out there. Good luck!

Step 7: Square up. Iron your block to that everything is nice and straight and flat. Then use the fabric edges of the red and purple to cut the remaining ends of the strips. Use the HST to cut the white. Be careful, the long side of the triangle is on the bias and likely stretched a bit.

I already added borders here. I'm making a pillow case.

Step 8: Fuzzy cut and raw edge applique. Double sided iron on interfacing is essentially double sided tape. It has two types of glue, one gets activated by 2 seconds of heat, the other by 5 or so (depends on the product). The second side is also covered with a paper that needs to be removed before the second gluing. Read the instructions of the product you are using!

Use your compasses to draw a circle on the protective paper side of the interfacing. It's actually two circles from the same middle point, see pattern. Cut it out roughly. Then place it with the rougher side on the backside of your purple fabric and iron for 2 seconds on middle heat. If you've just ironed your fabric before and the ironing board is still hot, wait for it to cool down. Also let the fabric cool down after applying. Then cut out your circle. The interfacing will have stiffened the fabric, so that shouldn't be a problem. Then remove the protective paper, place the circle on the yellow triangle where you want it and iron for 5 seconds. Let cool.

And you're done! The applique at this point is only secured with the interfacing, but it should hold fairly well. The quilting will secure it further.

And that's it. BTW, did you know that this design was made by Valentino Vecchietti for Intersex Equality Rights UK in 2021? Now you do. Happy quilting!

[verdigrissoup]

When I took up quilting this year, late enough into the spring that it was practically already summer, I didn’t fully realize the magic that comes along with a quilt.

Really, I was just looking for something to do with my hands and my practically-new sewing machine I’d been gifted the October before. All I did was just start fabric into triangles and sewing them together with no plan. I just... learned the steps as I needed to.

I decided early on that it was a gift for my partner’s birthday at the end of the summer, but even then I barely finished it on time. I am the type of person who is eternally cold, with at least four to six blankets on my bed at any given time. He only has one, and it felt fitting to use a part of myself to make something that could always keep him warm.

Quilting is simultaneously so deceptively simple and incredibly hard. I love it because, if I want to, all I have to do is sew straight lines. But then comes the fabric, the cutting, the piecing, the batting, the basting, the quilting, the dreaded binding. It’s a massive, complicated, beautiful commitment of love and labor and time.

My first quilt this year was for my partner. His face lit up when he opened his present, and when he passed it along for his family to see, his cousin didn’t even want to let it go. He sleeps with it every night.

My second quilt was for his nephew as an impromptu birthday gift, I finished that in two weeks. His parents tell me it’s a permanent fixture on his bed.

My third was to my roommate, obnoxiously (delightfully) orange with glow-in-the-dark skeletons along the back. She tells me crawling under it immediately improves her day.

My fourth is yet to be gifted, but my fifth is one for me. A rainbow scrap quilt, made with parts of all the other fabrics that came before, and lots of other scraps along the way. I’m sitting with it now, and it comforts me while I sit and type.

I didn’t expect my loved ones to become so attached to their gifts, in the same way I didn’t expect to become so attached to my own. There’s something so special about a handmade quilt, though. When you look at it, you can see the time and effort it took to put together every piece. The stitching isn’t always perfect, but it is always those parts that make me smile. A quilt is something that keeps these people warm on the coldest nights, and holds them in times of great sadness and great joy. It is there for them when I am not.

When I see my quilts, I am reminded that there is love in everything I do, and it is a great joy to be able to share it.

[andrewvehansen]

Community Garden

This 53″ x 46″ quilt was made for the 2023 Brooklyn Quilts! show put on by the Brooklyn Quilters Guild. It was completed in February 2023. It is mostly machine pieced with hand-appliqued triangles sewn on the borders. The middle panel is quilted with roses and the borders are quilted with leaves. The binding is a rainbow patchwork made with the same fabrics as the triangles. Over the last year…

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Look at what I'll be working on tomorrow. I will likely have the top finished tomorrow evening and will machine quilt the day after. This is another table runner, and almost twice the length, 26.5x58.5 inches, of what I just finished.

The orange looks a little intense, but I think after sewing, the color will tone down. Those strips will finish at 1 inch wide, making them significantly slimmer than what you see here. The black has silver sparkles throughout.

I had originally planned on using a different pattern, but without an off-white, it looked unbalanced. I have lots of white, but I'm out of cream and off-white. Switching to a different pattern made a huge difference!

The binding will likely be the tree print you see in the big triangles. This will be finished too late for this Halloween, but it's way ahead of next year. I know several people who would keep something like this on display throughout the year because spooky.

The original pattern I planned on using has been switched with the rainbow tarot table runner and will have purple fabric added to it. Yay for colors!

[sweettooth97]

Day 4 of the mystery quilt:

The pile of shirts has been condensed and the pile of small squares grows!! We have reached about 400 small squares

I have desided that the pattern will look something like this

Where the triangles with by made up of two squares of the same color and I'm just gonna randomiz the triangles that go next to each other. Hopefully it won't look like a rainbow vomit quilt but I'm still cutting squares so only time will tell

[floweringglass]

While waiting for the frame to get made for the Okami window, figured I should take a look at the mess that is my current project list and do some consolidating/organizing

Started: - 5 color swirl, just needs to be soldered and finished - more dice boxes- woodworking is started but need to actually finish/assemble

Next on the bench: - Request (sar fk) - 3D cat(s) - make another each trans + rainbow flag hearts so once again have a full set - pumpkins? I think they could be fun and it is a good time for them, depends on what I have for orange glass - quilt squares - Clean/Dirty dishes sign

Next big project(s): - Crystal Palace wardian case- make after some small things - Zelda window, part 2 of 4 of the kitchen window set (the Okami one was part 1). Have rough idea of what pattern is going to be, but need to draw it out

Other projects on the list: - get started patterning last two kitchen windows (HMC + Sp.A) - Origami crane redo - Koi Lamp (?- started pattern for but think only half done) - Bookshelf door (keep changing my mind on design for this) - Mushrooms - World globe lamp - Squares and triangles lamp - Honeycomb box - 3D lily of the valley (slumping petals somehow??) - Praise the Beans - Want to actually make the Bone Daddy pattern since it is finished, but need to figure out colors -MTH auction projects, no idea what yet but a reminder to self that those are coming up

[sweetberryponies]

A Whole Rainbow of Ponies

Episode 7 of the Rump Design Games brings me and my cohost Pony Flickerman to the rainbow pony collection of year 2.

Disclaimer once again, Pony Flickerman and myself are both native.

Parasol (aka Sonnenschirmchen/Protovrohi/Rosa/Pingo de Chuva/Noivinha) Spirit of the Pony: 5/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 4.5/5 Ugliness: 3/5

Promising start, umbrellas for parasol. These are absolutely weird shaped, they could've been connected and would've looked fine and I think the palette could've better matched the peachiness of her body. However, the absolute scene queen aesthetic of whatever's going on in the example pic. If I could give bonus points for swag I would.

Moonstone (aka Pierre de Lune/Mondschein/Ouranos/Turchino/Asinha Bola de Prata/Selene) Spirit of the Pony: 1.5/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 4.5/5 Ugliness: 3/5

That's not a moon nor a moonstone. That is Uranus. Or Neptune. Whatever. Saturn! Fuck it! It's not a moon! What's with the random dots? Are those the moons of the planet??? She's not called Many Moons (great native name) like. Moonstone here has an opposite problem to Parasol where her colours blend in a little too well with her body. Maybe they were more vibrant upon release but the colours are still so similar nonetheless. I love me a bimbo though, dumbass bitch after my own heart.

Skydancer (aka Himmelstänzer/Astrapi) Spirit of the Pony: 1/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 5/5 Ugliness: 4/5

Listen. I get it. Little Vs in the sky are meant to be birds. Understandable. What's not understandable is how in the fuck shitty cartoon birds relate to "Skydancer". Maybe you can try and bullshit it with "ooh birds dance through the sky" but I'm not having it, don't come for me with that shit. Have you ever seen a seagull? Pitiful. In relation to her story in relation to her Rump Design I think of music notes in the wind more than I think of crappy birds. There are no birds mentioned. Do better Hasbro.

Sunlight Spirit of the Pony: 1/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 3/5 Ugliness: 1/5

Pony Flickerman, in tears: Why would you make the clouds GOLD and the sun SILVER, why would you DO THIS TO ME HASBRO Aside from the colours being weird and atrocious choices for what they're supposed to convey, that sun shape is just. Bad. It's bad. She failed every geometry test possible. The opportunity to make it a cute cartoon half-sun with bigger triangles is right there my friend. Her name is Sunlight, why are we covering the sun in the first place. A pony with this Rump Design would better be named something like Cloudy Day in my opinion. As for her backstory, first of all HORROR STORY. NIGHTMARE FUEL. LIVING SHADOW BAD. Second of all, it has nothing to really do with sunlight, this is about playing hide and seek with her shadow and then the rain coming in. I am appalled. Haunted shadows do not interact.

Windy Spirit of the Pony: 4/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 5/5 Ugliness: 2/5

Unnamed Host: Do you think this one is going to be like... leaves blowing in the wind? Pony Flickerman: I don't think god loves me enough for that. It's not horrible but it does look borderline like some zebra stripes. It could use some leaves or any other shape to convey the wind better. Like the little dots could be leaves instead. Her name at least makes sense with her background included, she's the fastest rainbow pony so she be fuckin' zoomin' like the wind. Impeccable.

Starshine (aka Sternenglanz/Asinha de Açucar) Spirit of the Pony: 5/5 Does the Palette Fuck: 5/5 Ugliness: 5/5

Pony Flickerman: She is serving QUILT :clap: CUNT :clap: REALNESS :clap::clap::clap: I think her Rump Design could've been another colour but otherwise it's cute. I have no qualms, her Rump Design is a star and it's shining. What's there to comment on. Originally her Design was a vibrant gold so there are no qualms. She's lovely and perfect.

Final Scores Parasol: 12.5/15 Moonstone: 9/15 Skydancer: 10/15 Sunlight: 5/15 Windy: 11/15 Starshine: 15/15

[teethrotter]

a love letter to keith haring + all those affected by hiv / aids, particularly homosexual men ( + some bonus shots of pre-glaze textures )

[tj-crochets]

I finally got around to washing my rainbow triangle quilt and putting it on my bed!

Not pictured: under this rainbow quilt is another, different rainbow quilt lol

[wyrmscraft]

Stripe fabric made into a little wall hanging. Mitred borders with the stripe was easy and fun.

I couldn’t decide on a side setting triangle colour until I said “fuck it, make it bright” and picked the bright yellow. I love it.

Free motion quilted on my domestic with a loop meander using yellow thread. I… think I used the yellow grunge fabric for the backing? I didn’t have much of the stripe and that’s why I did a small project.

[itsquilttime]

Emily’s Pyramid Quilt from Fancy Tiger Crafts

[loveslavandula]

Patchwork Prism Front 1 by Marci Girl Via Flickr: Patchwork Prism Quilt pattern designed by Anna Maria Horner for Janome.This is a smaller scale version made with 5" charm squares. No repeating fabric with the exception of the solids used on the "prisms." Both machine and hand quilted. I participated in the quilt along over at Sweet Diesel Designs. Blogged - www.marcigirldesigns.com/1/post/2012/06/patchwork-prism.html

[creations-by-chaosfay]

I have just two quilt projects set aside on my cutting table. Commissions open March 21st, which is just days away. My husband thinks i should chill out, which is sound advice.

Here are pics of the quilts mentioned in the poll.

Earth Science

The solids are two shades of blue and green, and the prints are big. This makes it ideal for big blocks. For this quilt, the prints are the O part of the block, the solid is the center and corners. It will be busy, but there's the option of making half the blocks with the solids as the O and the prints as the center and corners for the blocks.

Party Cake

The white is a print!!! Look up the Bubble Up fabric collection to see all the colors. The Kona solids are a rainbow of colors that go well with Bubble Up. They're thr squares in the pattern. Where the white and black triangles are in the blocks will be the multicolor batik and white print.

Two very different color families and moods. The Earth Science quilt has been waiting almost five years, whereas the Party Cake quilt is less than a year of waiting.

Help me choose, be it a quilt or telling me to chill out until commissions open.

[isaragam]

A bigger rainbow in these troubled times!

A bigger rainbow in these troubled times!

Well , as troubled as these last few months have been ( the COVID 19 pandemic) , we have seen a few rainbows too… like, real actual rainbows ….sometimes even two rainbows at a time (and before you ask…. No, no one was drunk at the time!) ….and let’s not forget the fabric rainbow in the creativeclutterroom , which is the hero of this post.

This quilt is a larger generous queen size version of my