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Hurry Up Bento!

My Bento Box quilt just keeps growing! Every time I go to the shop I find some more yellow and black to add to it. It may end up the biggest quilt ever. My cat Zali, is glad I don't have a design wall, she just loves helping me to rearrange the blocks on my design bed. It is not ideal, but I don't really have a spot big enough to fit a design wall in.

Triangle Quilt

I am going to make a triangle quilt in reds, blacks, greys and whites. I haven't really seen one like it, and it has been in my head for a while. They will be equilateral triangles, that is equal size on all sides. I also want to be very efficient with my fabric, and as I have fat quarters I will adjust my sizes so that I can get the maximum number of triangles per fat quarter (FQ). The fat quarters are 18 inches by 21 inches. Each triangle must be cut 3/4" longer than the size triangle you want, for example if you want 3" triangles, you must cut a triangle 3 and 3/4". This is going to be tricky to be efficient with the fabric. After doing some calculations, the best use of the FQ for a triangle quilt is to have finished triangles of 2 and 3/4", after adding the allowances, the triangles are cut at 3 and 1/2". This means that every fat quarter can have 6 triangles across by 5 rows down, but you actually get 11 triangles from every s