TRIANGLE CHARM QUILT
TRIANGLE CHARM QUILT – So my quilting buddy (SB) and I had the brilliant idea to do some charm quilts using the same fabric packs, but we did different patterns or ways to put the charm pieces together. I simply took my 5″ squares and made half square triangles from them. I added enough “charm” pieces from my own stash to make the top big enough to suit me.
The green sashing and brown posts were out of my stash. I just wanted someplace for my eyes to rest and all those triangles were busy.
I pieced the Triangle Charm Quilt top during March to May 2002. It was fun, and it was fun to work with some different fabrics I would not have bought otherwise.
I kept track of the charms by keeping the fabrics in baggies by main color. Since the point of “charm quilts” is to only have one piece of each fabric in a quilt you will want to find a way to know what fabrics you have already used.
The definition I found for charm quilts “…when quilters make a charm quilt, no fabric is used more than one time in the quilt“.
This was machine quilted in May or June 2002 by RLM.
Finished size is 83″ x 82″.
Other charm quilts:
https://indianaquilter40.blogspot.com/2011/08/2000-millennium-charm-quilt.html
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-make-a-charm-quilt-4145708
I encourage you to do one charm quilt in your quilting journey. They can be as simple or complicated as you want, but it is a good excuse to use fabrics you would not normally use.
6 thoughts on “TRIANGLE CHARM QUILT”
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What a great idea to do as a charm quilt. Thank you for the idea. BTW, really nice blog.
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Fun quilt and neat idea.
It was fun to make. Charm quilts are a nice project.