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Millenium Mania!
~My Y2K Quilt Adventure~
I have been
bitten!! And bitten HARD! When I
first
heard of the millenium quilt craze and the whole prospect of creating a
quilt with 2000 different pieces of fabric to celebrate the dawning of
a new century, I thought it was INSANE!! *LOL*
But then, when
has insane ever stopped me? *giggle*
Through the
help of internet swap lists I discovered
how
fun it is to swap packets of 25 different 3" charms along with a
signature
square (siggie!) and a bio (biography) with quilters from around the
world.
I don't know
exactly how many swaps I have sent
out,(over
150 so far!) and how many I have received, but it has been so fun to
recieve
"squishies" in the mail every day.
I thought and
thought about what kind of quilt I
wanted
to make with these charms. I surfed websites to more websites and
was really inspired by the quilts I saw out there......but I wanted
mine
to be different.
My biggest
challenge is that though quilters try the
best
they can....the squares I have been recieving are NOT all an exact 3"
square.
Sooooo...they would have to be evened up some how so that the pieces
would
be uniform and all fit together right.
Then it hit
me! The perfect pattern! I
am
doing my quilt with equilateral triangles, and calling it 2000 Pyramids!
Of course this is
just a small section...but if you
look
very closely (and squint a bit! *LOL*) you can see that the darks and
the
lights form a zig zag design across the quilt.
I have
separated my light patches from my dark
patches
and even turned the medium prints upside down to use the reverse
side....giving
me more lights....
I am stitching
40 rows of 50 triangles to give me my
2000
pieces.....borders not included! I have no clue what I will do when it
comes to borders, but I will deal with that when I get there. So
far I have 350 pieces sewn together. Not a small accomplishment
in
it'self, but still SO FAR to go!
Quilt directions:
This pattern is
NOT as hard as it seems! The
hardest
part was graphing out the color placement to get the zig zag
effect.
That can be done easily on triangle graph paper, found at most quilt
shops.
I take the 3"
squares and seam two of them together
with
a 1/4" seam along one edge.... I chain sew a bunch of these pairs
together.
...and then with
my triangle rule
Place the 2.5"
line on the seam line of the joined
pairs.....and
cut the triangle.
Because of
the seam, I can open these up and have
diamond shapes.
Simply stitch the
diamonds into rows and stitch
together!
When joining
rows......it is very important to pin your
points so that they match when you stitch your seam.
Update!! I
spent Super Bowl Sunday Night adding
another
150 pieces to my quilt...here is a pic! This brings the total of pieces
so far to 650!
It's Finally Finished! I
finally finished this quilt at a quilter's
retreat with my quilt guild up in Oklahoma! I even found the PERFECT
border
fabrics while were were out haunting the quilt shops. I used a red for
a narrow inner border, and found the perfect purple/turquise/red print
for the outter border to tie it all together! Now to get it
quilted.....maybe
in the NEXT millenium? *LOL*
Questions
or Comments? I would love to hear from you!! Bonnie@Quiltville.com
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