Medallion Quilt Along - Round 1 Triangles

I have decided to join the Medallion Quilt along.

All of the cool kids are doing it - Lara, Sheridan, Becky, Bronwyn and I didn’t want to be left out.

I really want to make this quilt from stash.  The best part of my stash is blue, but when I found this prints charming panel I went in the brown direction.  Don’t worry there is a fair bit of brown in my stash too.

I did a bit of research on medallion quilts and found that the scrappy ones that I liked the most had recurring “solid” colours in them to tie them together.

 

There are a couple of other medallion quilt along patterns about.

The first rounds theme is triangles. I didn’t want to have squares in the corners so went looking for some inspiration and came up with this one.

I used my trusty flying geese ruler for the centre triangles and I used this to help me figure out how to make 3″ finished half square triangles.

Ta Da!

The panel needed to be trimmed down to 12″.  The design isn’t symmetrical and I found it a little difficult to get the pattern centred.  It is a bit close to the edge down the bottom and it will probably bother me every time I look at it.

I am trying to look “big picture” as I go.  The first round doesn’t really match the panel but then the fabric that I want to try to use in the next round will hopefully tie them together.  I will keep using solids too, but use a variety of shades cream through brown.

 

 

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