How to Make a Triangle Quilt Block

Triangle Tutorial

How to Make a Quilt Triangle

Just like the square if you are not ready to purchase a rotary cutter and mat. You will need to make a freezer paper pattern.  How to do Square’s HERE

Take the FINISHED size of the square you want and add 7/8 of an inch.
example:
for a finished size 2 inch square you will cut your fabric 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
for a finished size 3 inch square you will cut your fabric 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″

for a finished size 4 inch square you will cut your fabric 4 7/8″ x 4 7/8″

And so on, either make you freezer paper pattern or up with a rotary cutter and ruler.

Tutorial to make a quilt triangle



 

I’ve used a 3 inch FINISHED Square cut 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″A light and a dark.

How to make a quilt triangle
On the Wrong side of the light fabric draw a line from corner to corner.

This is the cutting line NOT sewing line

How to make a quilt triangle

On your sewing machine sew a straight seam, 1/4″ from the line. Pencil is on if you need, my sewing machine foot is 1/4″
How to make a quilt triangleTurn and do the same thing on the other side.(when I have many to sew, I do chain piecing, one right after another, not stopping the machine until all finished and then turn and do the other side)
If NEW do them one at a time.
Tutorial to make a quilt triangle
Cut on the drawn Cutting line.





You have 2 triangles







Open them up and 2 triangles
How to make a quilt triangle
Press your seam to the dark fabric and trim the end tail off.


How to make a quilt triangle
This is your finished triangle




GIVE IT A TRY…. IT’S NOT HARD.
I recently posted a quilt block on Facebook and there was a lot of take about points.
Here’s how I do it.
how to not cut off triangle points in quilting
Pieced together a triangle to a block
how to not cut off triangle points in quilting
Added this as a strip to another piece.  Pin as much as you need, check as you pin to make sure
you have the 1/4 seam allowance. how to not cut off triangle points in quilting
On this seam I had to move the needle in just 2 threads to make the point perfect.
Press the fabric 
how to not cut off triangle points in quiltingThe point. 
I can ONLY do this because you purchase my books and quilt pattern book, Thank you, Beth Ann
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Here for YOU – All in One Year Quilt Patterns

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I am having a ball with my new quilt pattern book ! Here is one of the first editions of the cover, the one used has only subtle changes.  A Quilt Pattern for EVERY month of the YEAR ! 

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February Quilt Pattern from All in One Year Quilt Pattern Book
December Quilt
Make a May Basket Quilt
May Quilt Pattern

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and The Quilt Ladies COMPLETE Collection in Print

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Talk about it Thursday – How To Quilt

How to Quilt Link Pages for YOU

This is New Quilters and long time ones too. I started The Quilt Ladies Blog  in 1999 and  bethanndoing.com in 2013. I have requests for quilt how to all the time: I can’t look each one up, it’s just me here, so I’m putting a few of the links here for you. 

quilt with the quilt ladies Quilt Pattern ShopYES, a how to book is thought about, but I’m working on something now just for and about me ! Will share later. HERE are the LINKS :   My Complete How to Quilt Section

 

Picking Fabric

How to make a Square using freezer paper  

How to make a Triangle

How to make a quarter square triangle

Center square  

Add triangle to corner Like flower

Flying geese, off set triangles and triangle in triangles

Mirror image, triangle on one end, triangles on both ends –

How to tie a quilt

How to add quilt binding and hand stitch it down

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and 15 Complete Quilt Patterns
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Floating Squares from The Quilt Ladies

Putting Your Quilt Together

Floating Squares Quilt Pattern, finished size is 34″ x 34″ making it the perfect size for a lap quilt or the perfect baby quilt !   If you missed Part ONE and Part TWO
We are now ready to put this quilt pattern together,
Lay the squares out, block one then block two
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Play with them and when YOU like the placement…..
Cut 12 Burgundy – 2 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ 
Sew between the blocks
Press the burgundy to the center each time.

 

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2 rows pieced 

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Cut 3 Burgundy – 2 1/2″ x 26 1/2″
Sew in between each row
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Cut 2 Burgundy – 4 1/2″ x 26 1/2″

Sew to the top and bottom
 
Cut 2 Burgundy – 4 1/2″ x 34 1/2″

Sew to the sides

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Cut Binding – 2 1/2″ x 150″
 

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and Little Quilt Ladies Quilt Patterns
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My Holiday Gift for you – Putting the Quilt Together

This is probably my favorite part of the quilting process. Putting it all together !  When I first took a quilting class, the teacher talked about the three steps of making a quilt, 1) the idea/purchase, 2)the making of the quilt, 3) finished, the quilting/binding.
I think of this often, as I really LOVE the idea/purchase part, but a stack of fabric or blocks can NOT be called a quilt.

SO….Let’s start to put the quilt together.
Two Block Quilt Pattern by The Quilt Ladies

Cut 6 Background – 2 1/2″ x 14 1/2″ sew as shown above

Two Block Quilt Pattern by The Quilt Ladies

Cut 6 Background – 2 1/2″ x 14 1/2″  Cut 9 Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2 as shown above

Free Two Block Quilt Pattern

If you missed, here are the links to make the quilt blocks

Part ONE 

Part TWO 

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