Learning Traditional Quilting Techniques

This week I started an eight week course in traditional quilting techniques. We’ll be creating a 9 square wall hanging all by hand! This week we used templates to cut our squares, paying careful attention to grain, & then hand pieced it.

By the end of class I had three triangles pieced to the center square with the rest to do at home. The stitching was pretty easy but making sure there were no holes where the corners met up was a little tricky especially on the inside corners when adding in the second set of triangles (anyone have any good tips for this?).

It took me two afternoons to finish piecing it. It still needs pressing. I’m pretty proud of how it looks. You can see a little stitching at one or two of the inside corners but only if you’re REALLY looking. The next four weeks we’ll have to do two squares a week!