Triangle Baby Quilt Sewing Tutorial

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I love sewing baby blankets. I decided to try a triangle baby quilt sewing tutorial this time around. I’ve made many, many of the rag quilts over the years, so this one is just slightly different. When Kelle e-mailed me about her new fabric line Penned Pals for Rabert Kaufman fabrics in flannel I knew I needed to make another blanket tutorial. {I received fabric from Kelle for this post} And so here is my new sewing tutorial… a triangle baby quilt!

Baby Quilt Sewing Tutorial-

Aren’t these fabrics sooo cute? The Penned Pals line comes in these prints in a variety of colors. I had all flannel for my sample. You can check out the fabric HERE.

I used three different prints for the front of the quilt and another one for the backing. I had one yard of each fabric. You can make any design you want with the triangles, I was pretty random! I cut 10″ squares of these three fabrics and then cut the square in half. For a quilt 4 x 5 squares {like mine} you will need 40 triangle halves… You can make it bigger, but this size fits on my 1 yard of flannel backing.

Decide on your design and then sew the triangles together with a 1/4″ seam allowance. Sew all twenty squares this way.

I ended up with 7 of each of these combinations… I had 21 squares to work with.

Layout your desired design and then begin to sew the rows together.

After you have each row together, double check your design to make sure it is what you want.

Sew all the rows together, trying to line up the corners when sewing the rows.

With wrong sides together, place the quilt top on the backing of your choice. My quilt fits on 1 yard of flannel for the backing. It ends up to be about 44″ x 36″ {approx} when finished. Pin the top to the back in many many places. Trim any extra from the edges of the backing. Even up the the front as well if you need to trim and square up the edges.

Stitch the blanket together. I top-stitched down each row and each column of the blanket. You could also stitch on the triangles, but I only did the squares.

For the quilt binding cut 4″ wide stripes of fabrics. You will need four widths of fabric to fit around the blanket.

Sew the ends together with pieces right sides together at a right angle. Trim the extra fabric.

Fold the binding so the wrong side is inside and line up raw edges with the raw edge of the blanket. Starting pinning/clipping about 8 inches from the end. You will be putting the binding on the right side of the quilt.

Clip around the entire perimeter of the quilt. Fold the corners like this.

Leave about 8 inches of loose binding on the other side of the quilt. Sew the binding to the edge of the quilt with a 3/8″ seam allowance leaving the ends loose. When you get all the way around open up the binding and pin in the middle where the two ends meet. Sew and trim any excess, then fold in half and sew to the edge of the quilt to complete the binding.