Rebecca_S

Thanks everyone for your kind words!


Here are a few tips:
* Starch the fabric really well, there is a lot of bias happening in this quilt
* As I cut triangles, rather than stacking them in one pile I dealt them out like a hand of cards into 7 piles. That way each fabric got distributed around from the very beginning. For scrap quilts, I find this method makes it easier to keep 2 of the same fabric from touching
* Before starting, I decided on a color theme (light to medium, clear colors, nothing muddy, no solids) and pulled out scraps to match that theme
* I placed my fabrics so the darks pointed "up" and the lights pointed "down", which is fairly traditional for a thousand pyramids pattern. This makes each piece stand out against its neighbors.
* I did the layout of small triangles first, then large ones but if you only have one size you can lay them out a few rows at a time
* First I sewed pairs of triangles, one dark and light together in a row. Press towards the dark, carefully to avoid distortion
* Then I sewed pairs together into rows and pressed the other seams towards the dark. After this step the project sat around for months...
* Finally I sewed the rows together. Because of the layout and the pressing, the seams nested quite nicely so the rows went together fairly easily