Not Mine!

This beautiful quilt was not made by me, but by Julie M, who attended a workshop on the Scrap Slab Triangle quilts I gave to the Rising Star Quilters in MA several years ago. The quilt was displayed in a recent quilt show in Concord MA, and now the quilt will be published in an upcoming book with pictures of the quilts from the show.

I am always so excited to see what students do with my tutorials. I would never have thought to use black fabrics in the side triangles of the quilt, but they work fabulously in Julie M’s quilt.

Thank you Julie M for allowing me to share pictures of this stunning quilt!

This is a Scrap Slab Triangle Quilt. If you want to make one, it’s a great way to use up your scraps. I’ve made 13 of these quilts and they are all different. You can get the tutorial here, at my Etsy shop.

Bruce's Scrap Slab Quilt

 

I love in seeing the quilts students make from my tutorials. This is a quilt Bruce made from my Scrap Slab Triangles tutorial. 

 As you can see he also made four coordinating 18" square throw pillows. Bruce and his wife wanted a bright quilt, and he enjoyed using his old fabrics to make the slabs. It is queen sized, 94" x 100". 

Bruce wanted a random pattern of colors and triangle directions with some restrictions. A friend of his who taught math and computer science wrote an Excel program that created a pattern for a 16 x 15 block quilt that used each triangle color 60 times, each triangle direction close to 60 times and avoided creating diamonds. (Bruce didn't want diamonds in the quilt.) He and his friend ran the program several times until he settled on the exact arrangement of the quilt.

The quilt is fabulous, but what really floats my boat is the story of how Bruce and his friend developed a computer program to work out the design. That is so damned cool!