I Made a Triangle Quilt… Finally!

Tilda Triangle Quilt She Quilts A Lot

Do you have a list of quilts you plan to make?   I sure do.  It includes all of the quilt meth­ods and pat­terns I’d like to try one day and for years now that list has included a tri­angle quilt.   Just a little while ago I finally got my act togeth­er and man­aged to make one!

The quilt I made is off on a little adven­ture around Aus­tralia as part of the Show­case Fiona from Two Green Zebras has organ­ised for Tilda’s new fab­ric col­lec­tions, Cab­bage Rose and Memory Lane.   Both col­lec­tions are in stores now.

Tilda Cabbage Rose & Memory Lane

There are quite a few tri­angle quilt tutori­als out there and I’m sure they are all great.  My favour­ites are from Ash­ley of Crafter by Night and Amy of Diary of a Quilter.    Amy’s tutori­al uses the same star design in a single block quilt and both tutori­als include everything you need to know and heaps of awe­some pic­tures that make lin­ing up the tri­angles cor­rectly a breeze.   Its def­in­itely worth check­ing both out before you start mak­ing your quilt!

Tilda Triangle Quilt She Quilts A Lot

One more thing before we get to the tutori­al.   You’re going to need a 60 degree tri­angle ruler to make this quilt.   There are quite a few tri­angle rulers avail­able and, of course, it is pos­sible to cut equi­lat­er­al tri­angles using the 60 degree mark on a stand­ard ruler but, you will find things much much easi­er if you use a spe­cialty tri­angle ruler.   I have a Cre­at­ive Grids 60 Degree Double Strip Ruler and would­n’t be without it.   It makes cut­ting hun­dreds of tri­angles super easy and super fast!   If you have trouble find­ing one please shout and I’ll send through details of some shops that stock them.

Tilda Triangle Quilt She Quilts A Lot

You can down­load a PDF copy of the tutori­al by click on the image below, or you can book­mark this page and access it any time right here. Tilda Triangle Quilt She Quilts A Lot

I made a slightly smal­ler ver­sion of the quilt in the tutori­al using 8 fat quar­ters and 1 34 yards of back­ground fab­ric.   The smal­ler ver­sion fin­ishes at 45″ x 48″ and uses 11 full star blocks and 4 half star blocks.   Its a great size for a baby quilt :).

Tilda Triangle Quilt She Quilts A Lot

I hope you have enjoyed this tutori­al.   If you make your own quilt I’d love to see it.   You can flick me an email or, much easi­er, tag me on Instagram 🙂

Have a great week!

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12 thoughts on “I Made a Triangle Quilt… Finally!

  1. It’s beau­ti­ful and thanks for a great FREE pat­tern. My grand­daugh­ter (and her dada, my son) live with me. She turned 3 in July and I’m start­ing to think about a big girl quilt for her. I haven’t decided on any­thing yet. She’s very, very rough with things. I hate to put that much work into a hand­made quilt just to have her not take care of it. She will respect it when we are in the room with her but some­times we just miss things. She was with her moth­er for the first 2 12 years of her life and appar­ently did­n’t have much dis­cip­line. It’s been quite chal­len­ging. She has made great strides in the six months she has been with us. So, I do want to make a quilt for her. She’s in a third gen­er­a­tion tod­dler bed right now. I love stars and this is gor­geous. I might make one for her 12 broth­er, too.

  2. Beau­ti­ful, Peta. I am usu­ally not one for stars, but the fab­ric you selec­ted for this quilt brought it all togeth­er. I will have to rethink my pos­i­tion on stars. The fab­ric selec­tion means everything to a pat­tern. I saved the tutori­al, so maybe — some day I will tackle it.

  3. Hello I can­not find the pat­tern for the Play­ing Around Again is there a way i can pur­chase this pattern

  4. This quilt is beau­ti­ful. I am a new quilter and want to make this pat­tern. How would I adjust this pat­tern for a king sized quilt? Thank you for post­ing the free pattern 🙂

    1. Hi Chris,

      I haven’t had a chance to res­ize the pat­tern myself as yet. If I do I will let you know, in the mean­time I’d sug­gest mak­ing lots more of the full star units and then see­ing how many more of the half star units you’ll need to com­plete the quilt in queen size. Sorry I can­’t be of more help at the minute. Happy quilting.

      1. Thank you so much for get­ting back to me!

        That is just what I did. I am in the pro­cess of piecing all of those tri­angles togeth­er! It may take months to fin­ish but once com­pleted, I will post a pic­ture if I can fig­ure out how. LOL

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