I have a new pattern listed in the shop today, it’s called All The Triangles.
All The Triangles was included in the 2025 Quilter’s Calendar bundle that was sold in October – so if you bought one of those, you already have this pattern.
All The Triangles isn’t the most imaginative name, but naming these things is definitely not my forté. It’s an apt name because this quilt pattern does indeed contain quite an array of triangles – three different sizes to be exact.
All The Triangles has instructions for 3 quilt sizes:
- Crib: 39½” x 53″
- Square Throw: 65½” square
- Rectangle Throw: 53½” x 70″
Each pattern size has instructions for using yardage and for using scraps. You can mix the two as well, for instance make two of the triangle sizes from scraps and one from yardage. Whatever your stash dictates.
The pattern also includes printable diagrams of each quilt size, which you can colour in. It’s always a great idea to test your colour ideas before you cut into your fabrics.
Crib Size All The Triangles Quilt
The first sample I sewed was the crib size. I used yellow fabric for the smallest triangles, light pink for the medium triangles and fuchsia for the largest triangles. I would say this is more a scrap quilt as I used a lot of half-used fat quarters to cut my triangles.
Quilting-wise, I chose organic, wavy lines with my walking foot, in a light grey thread. The lines echo the column seams in the quilt top, so very little marking was required (I just extended the lines across the borders).
I wanted the quilting to be minimal with this one because I had found some amazing old fabric in my stash to use as backing. I don’t know if you were quilting back when Anna Maria Horner’s Folksy Flannels came out (2009!), but boy they were gorgeous. They’re so soft and have lovely drape, so I knew I didn’t want to quilt this one too much and stiffen the flannel.
I couldn’t get enough of these Folksy Flannels and I wish I’d bought a bolt of each. But alas, I only had enough for a quilt or two, and then I tucked the extras/offcuts away. As I was looking for a backing for this quilt I realised I could piece together two different flannels and I’d have just enough. Only just.
The basting required technical precision never seen before, ha. But I got there in the end, with only trimmings to spare!
The binding for this quilt was a turquoise solid. I thought the colour contrasted nicely with the pinks on the front and the yellow on the back. I machine sewed it on with a zigzag stitch and a turquoise thread.
Square Throw Size All The Triangles Quilt
As I’d sewn the crib quilt quite scrappy, I considered sewing a square throw sample using straight yardage. But then I pulled together all these Ruby Star Society fabrics in low-volumes and fuchsia, and I just could not choose only one of each. So I decided to use them all!
If you’ve ever wanted to convert a yardage pattern to fat quarters, it’s pretty easy. 4 FQs = 1 yard, so I keep that in mind when swapping things out. If it’s a lot of FQs I will throw in one or two extra, to make up for any ‘yardage economy’ lost when converting to FQs.
My background fabric was the very pretty Sugar fabric by Ruby Star Society in Teal.
I mentioned this pattern has three triangle sizes, but as you can see I’m only using two fabric colours for the triangles. I had to decide how I wanted to assign the colours to the triangles. The hot pink need to be an accent rather than a main character. But how much of a pop did I need?
I used some mock-ups for this purpose. Here we have only the small triangles in pink (pretty, but not enough pink for me). [As an aside, I think this variation would make such a cute festive quilt. Imagine a dark green background, Christmassy low volumes and berry-red small triangles.]
This is only the medium triangles in pink (too much pink for me in this one):
And this final mock-up is the large triangles in pink (ahh, just right):
So I cut all my large HSTs in pink and used the low volumes for the other two triangle sizes.
I also quilted this square throw with organic wavy lines in a grey thread. However this time I sewed a lot more lines, probably 3-4 times as dense as the crib quilting. I used the column seams as a guide (as with the baby quilt) but then went back and added in 3-4 lines between these.
I wanted quite a clean, modern edge to this quilt so I used the background fabric for my binding. It was also machine attached (zigzag stitch to finish) with a matching teal thread.
Funnily enough, I ended up using another Ruby Star Society fabric for the backing of this square throw. This time it was wide back sateen yardage in another lovely teal hue.
Other All The Triangles Ideas
Scrappy Rainbow
I would like to sew a scrappy rainbow version of this pattern. As it has 3 different triangle sizes it’s a good one for getting into the scrap pile. Here’s my printable diagram, testing out the idea. After checking my scraps I divided the triangles into the appropriate number of bands across the pattern. I’ll be able to use triangles of each of the 3 sizes in all of the colours, which suits my scraps.
Memory Quilt with Old Clothing
I also think this would be a good candidate for a uniform quilt. I’ve had my old Australian Army camouflage uniforms siting in a box in my cupboard for several years (I finished up in 2021).
The Army doesn’t want the uniforms back (we’ve moved on to a new camo fabric so they aren’t used any more) and I can’t bring myself to give them to a disposal or surplus store. Sewing quilts from clothes can be tricky because there is limited fabric to play with. But I feel with this pattern it would be easy to mix matching solids (taken from the colours in the camo fabric) and supplement the uniform fabric to make a larger quilt. Kind of like adding the quilt equivalent of Hamburger Helper to get enough triangles!
I think a light olive green or tan background fabric would suit all the greens and browns. I’d probably back it with a water repellant table cloth fabric and use it as a picnic quilt. Or to hide an artillery piece in my backyard. 😃 Here’s a mock up:
I’d harvest as many squares as possible from my uniforms, in all 3 sizes. Then pad the rest of it out with matching solids. You might have some uniforms (or a collection of clothes such as business shirts) that could also become a memory quilt this way!
Grab Yourself a Pattern
If you’d like to make an All The Triangles quilt for yourself, please do come on over to the shop and buy one.
And bonus: this Black Friday weekend you can use the code BF2024 to get 30% off everything in the shop. Including All The Triangles.
Happy sewing!
Kirsty x
