Compulsive Quilts

It is now Monday and I still haven't finished the Bento Box quilt, it is starting to wear me down. Why do quilts do this to you, at the start you are full of ideas and energy and can't wait to get started. Near the end, you can see it all coming together and you work hard to see the final quilt complete. But the middle, this is the hardest part, it seems just endless. I find that I start to calculate how long each block takes, and then I work out how many extra blocks I need, it starts to get depressing then. The other problem is that I get ideas for the next quilt coming into my mind, so I want to get started on that....I have to be strong, I have to finish this one first. Actually it is not too hard, only 6 more bento box blocks, and then a double border. Yay! ***Update, this quilt is now ready to be quilted. I am going to find someone to do this for me.

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.

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...