How to Sew Triangles Together for Quilting – PART 2

Sewing together triangles is quite easy when you know how and it’s something worth learning because you can put together a triangle quilt quite quickly.

We have a complete step-by-step tutorial on how to cut triangles for quilting but in this post, we are going to learn how to sew them together.

 This is Part 2 of our Cutting & Sewing Triangles for Quilting tutorial  

Watch the video below for Part 1  – How to Cut Triangles for Quilting

TOOLS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

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• Quilting Clips

Method

• Before you start sewing your triangles together, it’s important to note that each triangle will have 2 bias edges and a cross-grain edge.
• You will be able to tell the difference between the two as the bias edges are stretchy. The cross-grain edge is less so.
• You can see how we have sorted the triangles below and pinned the cross-grain edge for each color stack. This makes it easy to know where the cross grain is as we start to sew.

• When you are ready to start sewing, lay out your triangles in the pattern shown below – one up, one down, one up, one down and so on.
• You need to ensure that the cross grain edges are at the top and bottom as shown in the image below.

• Place one triangle on top of the corresponding triangle (right sides together) and sew along the bias edge with a quarter-inch seam.

• Once sewn it should look like this.

• Now place the other triangle over the middle triangle (right sides together).

• Now sew down the bias edge with a 1/4″ seam.

• Your triangles should now look like this.

• You can continue to add more triangles in the same fashion until you have the strip as long as is required for your particular project.
• You can then create more strips as needed and sew them together as we have done for this table runner. Click the link for the triangle table runner tutorial.