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

Lots of solids here

This Amish doll is keeping guard over my bin (actually, a former kitchen cabinet drawer, see below) of solid strips, scraps and yardage. Inspired by Tonya and Gwen Marston (you can buy her new book on working with solids here), I've been pulling these from my stash as I come across them. Many are donations from my mother, others are from previous projects, and I found even more when reorganizing my scraps this weekend. I've got quite a bit of yardage, as well as many strips and smaller pieces. I'd love to dig into this, but for now the doll will be the only one who gets to play with them. And yes, she needs a new dress, since hers is really sun-faded, and not authentically Amish, since it is a print instead of solid. I bought her at a yard sale many years ago.