#FALLING HEARTS QUILT HOW TO#

Initially I started out wanting the triangles to be white, every other triangle, like the two options below (forgive the colors, these were quickly illustrated files). Use the coloring diagram at the bottom of this post to figure out where you want to place your heart, and pay close attention as you piece! The heart is made up of 14 triangles that span 4 of your rows/columns. Then turn them on their side and line them up as columns like this:įinally, sew together your rows and you have your quilt! Essentially you are sewing together rows of 29 triangles and then turning them on their side to form columns. For my quilt I made 15 columns of 29 triangles each. This quilt is made up of columns instead of rows.

#FALLING HEARTS QUILT HOW TO#

Okay, now that we know how to piece the triangles, let’s look at how the quilt actually pieces together. I like chain piecing, so I will sew triangles together in sets of two, and then put sets together to make into sets of four, etc. Voila! You have three triangles sewn together and you can keep adding on. Instead of worrying whether or not you’ve offset the triangle enough, use the openly pressed seam as your guide. You are going to place the next triangle, right sides together, one on top of the other, just as before. Now that you have the seams pressed open, you will use those corners as guides. Take a look at how the piece should look from the front and back: Time to press! As I said before, I think its easier to sew these types of triangles together if you can use the corners of the pressed open seams as guides. You are going to start off by placing two of your triangles together, right sides facing. Before we look at how the whole quilt is constructed, let’s review how I pieced my triangles. As long as you machine quilt the life out of it, after you are done the quilt should stand up fine over time. That said, this quilt is far easier to make if you press your seams open. I personally think its easier to match points if they nest. My triangles started out as 4 inch strips, so the math even works out!įirst up…How to piece the triangles togetherįull disclosure: I am usually a press the seam to the side kinda gal. I haven’t yet decided if I’m going to trim the top and bottom rows off to make the quilt square, or leave the jagged edges.Īre you ready to make one of your very own!?! First head on over to Fresh Lemons for her tutorial on cutting out equilateral triangles. The quilt ended up measuring around 50 inches by 60 inches. (Linking up to Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday) Here it is!!! Big thanks to my lil sis for holding it up for one of the photos. I think it is my favorite quilt I’ve made! I still need to quilt it, but wanted to post it in time for Valentine’s Day. I initially had an entirely different quilt in mind, but after playing on my design wall, decided this was the best option.

I ultimately decided to combine the three and now I have my very own equilateral scrappy heart quilt! I painstakingly cut 3 small triangles out of 60% of my stash (in a particular colorway of course, I’m still too uptight to go too scrappy) and came up with the quilt below. I have been wanting to make a pixel heart quilt, a scrappy quilt, and an equilateral triangle quilt for a while now.

Falling hearts quilt