I made these 2 chevron quilts using different methods. The blue/green one was made using half square triangles. The pink/yellow/green one was made using rectangles and this pattern:
http://beesquarefabrics.blogspot.com...t-without.html
I thought it would be good to give a comparison of the two methods.
Half square triangle method:
- Starched the fabric
- Layout was straight rows, easier to keep track of as I was going along
- Outer edge was all on the grain of the fabric, so it was easy to handle
Rectangle method:
- Starched the fabric
- Layout was diagonal rows. I had to keep the whole quilt laid out so I wouldn’t assemble it wrong
- Once the outer points were trimmed off, the entire outer edge was on the bias
- Sandwiching it was very difficult. Even with starch, I still had some stretching and distortion
- I quilted a looser design so that I could work with the fullness. I did have a few small pleats in the edges, but the binding covered it well.
- If I had put a border on this, it may have been easier to handle.
I’m happy with how they both came out, but next time, I will use the triangle method. It was less hassle overall.
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