Triangles and FMQ and binding . . . I feel like a real quilter now.
This weekend I made a kitchen set (2 9" potholder a and 2 6" countertop sized ones) for the wedding of one of my best friends. I wanted to do something crow themed and a little dark and I ended up with this moda seabird fabric from my LQS. I stressed over what to pair it with. All of the blacks and beiges I looked at really brought out the blue and were too ocean feeling until my boyfriend suggested I look at the red I had leftover from a Halloween costume (OMG I have a stash!) and it was a suddenly dark feeling Hitchcock-esc that could read crow.
From there I knew I was going to play with blocks and I wanted to try triangles . . . . So I kind of went crazy. On the second one I couldn't figure out a way I wanted to quilt it with straight lines so I dropped the feed dogs and went for it. On the smaller ones I ended up hand stitching because I accidentally bought the wrong thread and once I finished fighting with the machine about it I really wanted away from it. I was really disappointed about my hand stitching but then I remembered that insul-bright isn't exactly recommended for hand sewing.
Also binding sucks. Alot.
So here's my end result. They're kind of a mess . . . . But I'm really proud of them.