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Stardust {Modern Triangle Quilts}

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16 Feb

Today I have another quilt to show you from Modern Triangle Quilts. This is Stardust and she will be hanging at QuiltCon next week.

Stardust, Modern Triangle Quilts, Photo Courtesy Stash Books

The pattern and triangles for Stardust can be found in the Isosceles Triangle Section. For this section, instead of having numerous blocks to play with, I wanted to limit the blocks patterns (there are *only* 16) in order to play with repeating pattern in the quilts. You can maybe see some repeating pattern in Stardust, but other quilts exemplify this a bit better. I’ll show those quilts in the next few weeks.

There are 2 sizes of the Isosceles blocks, large and small. Stardust uses the larger 12” triangles.

Kona Color Chips

For the Isosceles section, I used a vibrant blue and pale peach palette, like this one. (The full palette information can be found within the pages of the book.) It’s such a fun palette to work with, full of subtle drama.

Coming off of using ALL the colors in Modern Rainbow, it was quite hard to choose only a few colors. But once I got to the Isosceles section, which was the last section I worked on, I felt I had found my color stride. I absolutely still love this color palette!

With this quilt I wanted to play with the weight of the negative space balanced with by grouping of Triangles. I tied the negative space and the focal points together with the quilting. You can see here how I carried the triangle designs over to the dark blue negative space by using similar quilting motifs.

 

Stardust measures 62” x 72”. The triangle block patterns and quilt pattern are found in Modern Triangle Quilts.

Signed copies of Modern Triangle Quilts are available in my shop and at your local quilt shop. They are also available at Stash Books’ webshop and also Amazon.

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  1. Hilary says

    February 16, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    So pretty! I can’t wait to get my copy of the book 😀

  2. karen swann says

    February 17, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    This is such a beautiful quilt! I adore your rainbow quilts, but your quilts with fewer colors are just as GORGEOUS! The peaches really make the darker colors shine. And echoing the triangles in the negative space of the quilt is genius.

    • rebeccabryan says

      February 20, 2017 at 11:33 am

      Thank you SO much!

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And I think that’s exactly why so many people are being drawn to quilting today.

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What’s stopping you from quilting isn’t that you don’t want to do it. It’s because you have already convinced yourself of something before even giving it a fair shot. 

You’re probably thinking something like...

👉 “I don’t think I’m creative enough.”
👉 “It looks too complicated.”
👉 “I wouldn’t know where to start.”
👉 “I don’t have enough time.”
👉 “What if I spend all that money and I’m terrible at it?”
👉 “I’ve never been good at sewing.”

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Almost every quilter I know started with one of those ideas in their head, including me. 🤫

The beautiful quilts you see today didn’t begin as beautiful quilts, they began as just an idea and a willingness to try.

Nobody sits down at a sewing machine and automatically knows how to quilt.

You learn by just doing it, sewing stitch by stitch, and every time you enter your sewing room, it gets a little bit easier, and you start to enjoy it more and more. 

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Plus, pressing helps set the stitches and keeps your fabric from shifting as you build your block.

Think of it as part of the sewing process, not an extra step.

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