A New Scrap Slab Quilt

 I've been sewing up the leftover pieces from the Nightingale quilts and making slabs out of them, then cutting triangles. I decided to make another one with the black triangles. The last black one I made (Black Abacus) my mother liked it so much she asked for it. I had wanted to keep that one, so now I will make myself one.

I've made eleven Scrap Slab Triangle Quilts and no two of them are alike. But I've never made one like this, that arranges the triangles into diamonds like a Harlequin design. So that's my plan.

Normally I try to separate triangles that look alike, but for this quilt, I decided to put them together, like this:

So if you look closely at the photo of all the diamonds on the design wall, you can see that I combined two triangles into diamonds that look like they were made that way - I have some orange ones, some green ones and at least one blue one.

I didn't get all worked up about it, but wherever I could, I made sure the diamonds looked like they were conceived that way.

It also meant that when I got something like this, above, with a big chunk of color at one end (that would "leak" out into the light background and not "read" as a dark triangle),

that I fixed it.

When I started adding the side triangles, I originally used side triangles that had some color in them, but that didn't really sing for me.

So I just decided to use black on white fabrics. Here I have sewn up four blocks, and I really really like this a lot.

I am sewing the blocks together. 

Oh, I finished that jigsaw puzzle.

This is a Scrap Slab Triangle Quilt. It is a GREAT way to use up your scraps. If you want to make one, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop.