Free range triangles for Friday

I spent last evening digging around in my triangle box

and came up with tiny bonus triangles from two long ago projects.

The one above measures 8.5 by 11 inches,

and is made from 1 inch HST blocks, more or less.

These are left over from one of my very first quilts

and aren't colours or prints I would use now.

15.5 by 6.75 inches

This little hanging of Christmas trees against a snowy background

are the off cuts of a Christmas house table runner

I won from Mrs. Moen's blog at least five years ago.

It was time to put them together and add them to

the other Christmas tree quilts I will display in December.

These HST blocks finish at 1.25 inches.

Both of these use triangles in a free form way,

inspired by the title of this this book, which is on my Christmas list:

I'm a fan of Gwen's work

and I don't need to read the book (although I want to)

to know she would advocate a little wonkiness and less precision in piecing triangles.

Here they are together, on the deck

where wet snowflakes fell on them during the photo shoot. 

Both are machine quilted because little triangles 

make lots of seam allowances terrible for hand quilting.

I like the pattern from the back on the green quilt.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at

Crazy Mom Quilts

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

TGIFF