Christmas Gifts

A few years back my mother made a lovely quilt.  

I inherited the off cuts...already triangles.

Then I ironed them.

Then I sewed them together.  

Pressed them.

I had about 140 of them...in piles of 4.

Then I started playing with the patterns. This is the first time I have sewn triangles and I was so surprised the umber of ways to put a block together.

Negative Windmill

Positive Windmill

Flying geese

Pinwheels

Stripes

Negative diamonds

Positive diamonds

Then I started quilting.

Then I started binding.

Sewing the binding to the front.

Finding the  'sweet point' in the binding

Pinning to machine bind

 Then I had some lovely mug rugs to give to my friends for Christmas.

 I popped some Christmas fabric on the back of some. Perfect for a Christmas mug rug.