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Triangle Baby Quilt

November 20, 2013 By Taylor 15 Comments

triangle baby quilt

Triangle quilts are all the rage this year so I knew I had to make one for my friend. She isn’t finding out the sex of her baby which I am a big fan of, I was surprised both times too. It adds so much excitement but it can be hard to pick out a gift. I love making baby gifts and I feel like a quilt is the perfect unisex present. I went with a range of colors and even though I added two pinks I made sure to add more blues just in case. But either way- it’s a baby and a little pink on a quilt is OK for a boy in my opinion :)

baby triangle quilt

For the front I used 11 different solid cottons, 1/4 yard of each color. Then I used 1 1/2 yards for both the batting and the back. I made a quilted triangle pillow a few months ago and I cut out all the triangles by measuring. So this time bought a handy little triangle ruler. The template I was using was about 7 1/2″ on every side. I didn’t realize that the flat top on the template was for another quilt pattern and all of my triangles were cut incorrectly. Bummer but since they were all consistently wrong I just went with it.

After I cut all of the triangles out I placed them in stacks. I laid the quilt out in a random pattern and I made sure no color was touching the same color. Then I sewed the triangles together horizontally making rows. I ended up cutting about 115 triangles but only used 8 rows of 12 triangles… so 96 total.

triangle baby quilt

Then I sewed each row together vertically. Because of the flat tops on the triangles it made them more of a trapezoid shape, which turned out OK it just made the quilting part a little different. I placed the back fabric right side down, then the batting then the top. I used very thick and fluffy batting because I thought it would make a perfect “play-on-the-floor-tummy-time-quilt”. Then I placed the quilt on top, right side up. Here is a very rough diagram of how I quilted the whole thing.

triangle baby quilt

I started with 1 and sewed horizontally all the way across each line. The diagram just shows 4 lines but I actually did all the the horizontal lines down the full length of the quilt. After I was done with that I started the zig-zag quilting. Because of the trapezoid shape I wasn’t able to just make diagonal lines. I actually started in the middle and did that zig-zag pattern down each “line”. This made it look like every “triangle” was separate, which I loved!

baby triangle quilt

baby triangle quilt

I just used some white cotton that I already had lying around for the binding so I’m not really sure how much I used. The quilt ended up to be 42″ x 52″ so that will give you an idea for the length of the binding.  Also, The day I went out and took pictures I got some awesome sun-flares… Baby Quilt Magic :)

baby triangle quilt

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Before I quilted everything I added this little TaylorMade tag to one of the triangles. triangle baby quilt

triangle baby quilt

I honestly thought about keeping it for myself because I loved it so much. I guess that makes a good gift, if you want to keep it! Now I just need to make one in my size.

triangle baby quilt

triangle baby quilt

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Comments

  1. Susan @SugarBeans says

    November 20, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    Such a wonderful gift! Wanting to keep the gift is a great measure of it’s Cute factor:)

    Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    November 22, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Absolutely Love This!!! Fansastic Job!!!

    Reply
  3. Nancy says

    September 26, 2016 at 6:26 am

    I love this quilt. I’m needing a baby gift for a neighbor by the end of Oct., so I am going to try my hand at this. I have not been quilting long.

    Reply
  4. Marie Dunphy Harding says

    October 3, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    What size were your triangles, or what sixe was the triangle ruler? I may have missed it.
    Great colors! Marie

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      October 23, 2017 at 3:29 pm

      They seem to be about 8 inches as there are 5 across and two halves making approx. 42 inches.

      Reply
  5. Gwen says

    November 1, 2016 at 10:08 am

    What are the cutting size of the triangles. Not very good directions.

    Reply
  6. Jennifer says

    November 24, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    What size did you measure out for the triangles? It sure would be helpful for us beginners to know this.
    Thanks,
    Jennifer

    Reply
  7. Jmarie says

    November 27, 2016 at 9:50 am

    This is a great little quilt, awesome job. My mom use to make Triangle Quilts all the time. The sizes of the triangles she used was 4″, 5″ ( 4.5″ & 5.5″)

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      October 11, 2017 at 12:56 pm

      Hello,

      How can you have both 4″ and 5″ triangles? I really do not understand.

      Thank you for your help.

      Lynne

      Reply
      • Anonymous says

        October 23, 2017 at 3:26 pm

        I would think she meant 4 inch OR 5 inch triangles.

        Reply
  8. Sally says

    January 16, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    Was also wondering what size triangle did you use

    Reply
  9. Lynne Butterfield says

    October 11, 2017 at 12:57 pm

    I really like your patterns and this one seems simple.

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      October 23, 2017 at 3:35 pm

      They must be about 7 1/2 inch (on each side) triangles because there are 5 triangles across and two halves equaling about 42 inch finished. (If you start with 7 1/2 and use a 1/4 inch seam you would have 7 inch finished triangles.)

      Reply
  10. Beth Yelton says

    December 13, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    How many triangles were used and what size? Directions aren’t clear.

    Reply
  11. Donna says

    December 13, 2018 at 8:14 am

    I thought the directions were clear, just read it twice They are 7 1/2 in triangles and you use approx 96 Thanks for a great idea

    Reply

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