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\"img_1948\"<\/a>Not too long ago, I happened across a page<\/a> showing knitted projects that illustrated math concepts. One of the knits looked like it could easily be made into a quilt using half-square triangles, though at this moment I can’t find that exact project on the site. Since I happened to be\u00a0between immediate quilting projects at that moment, I drafted the idea into EQ7 and played with colors. Naturally, making a new quilt from stash is ideal, and so that’s what I did. I love the way the HSTs give the impression of spirals\u00a0\u2014\u00a0pointed ones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0going around “poles”! Just squint a little, if you don’t see the effect right away. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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When it came time to begin quilting the finished top, I did softly curved horizontal lines in the white to make it recede into the background. I left the red unquilted so it would pop out a bit, and I just echoed a few times inside the almost-black shapes to give them a bit more motion. Luckily for me, my new Bernina ruler foot (#72 for domestic machines) arrived just as I was ready to do those straight lines in the black. Great timing! (And I love<\/em> the foot, too!) As a contrast to all of the straight\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or almost-straight\u00a0\u2014\u00a0lines in the central quilt, I did curves, with more rulers, in the borders and added pearls and small groups of feathers.<\/p>\n

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I love the way the texture shows up\u00a0on the back of the quilt, too. By the way, I used 1″ finished squares to make the top. It measures about 12.5″ x 15.5″\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which made it that much easier to make from stash fabrics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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