In today’s post of the Triangle Quiltalong, I will talk about the quilting process. There are lot’s of different ways to do this and there is no real right or wrong technique, just what you find suits you. I’m definitely no quilting expert, so some of my skills could do with improving, but as they say ‘Practice makes Perfect’ and like any craft, the process of learning and doing is just as important as the end product.

I think the quilting stage has been my favourite part of making this triangle quilt so far because once it’s done the quilt really gains so much personality.  As a sewist/sewer I used to be very intimidated by this stage of quilt making, but thanks to a few tricks I’ve picked up along the way, I feel much more confident in my skills now.
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I’ve been busy sewing lots of triangles together to bring you the second installment in the Triangle Quiltalong series. In the last post I covered Cutting & Planning, this post I’ll be showing you how I pieced the quilt top together.
Sometimes people confuse patchwork with quilting and use the terms interchangeably, but they are actually different stages of making a quilt. Patchwork is when you join all the pieces of fabric together to make a quilt top, that’s what I’ll show you in this post. Quilting is the technique of stitching the top, batting and backing layers together, I’ll be showing you that in the next post of the series.
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