Triangle Quilt Along Cutting and Impromptu Baby Quilt

I got up this morning excited because today is the day Paula of the Sassy Quilter published the triangle cutting instructions for the Triangle quilt along.  Also, I planned to make some baby quilts.

While I was reading the cutting instructions, I thought, "Hmmm... I think I'll combine the two activities and cut out triangles for a baby quilt."  Particularly noteworthy is that Paula has us cut 1/4" off the point of each triangle, which makes it so easy to sew them together accurately!

After I cut out the triangles, I couldn't resist, and I started sewing them together.

I sewed two together and another two together until I had a long string of them!

I started with these 32 triangles, not knowing how many I'd need.

I cut some more triangles, including white, black, and red stars for more variety, until I had 54 triangles, which is a good size for a baby quilt.

 

 I recently saw some straight pins with numbers on them for keeping track of your rows.  I don't have them, so I put 1 pin in row 1, 2 pins in row two, all the way up to 6 pins in row 6.

But all those pins were not efficient, with the pinning, unpinning, ironing, etc.  So I came up with a new method.  I assigned a row number to a pin head color.  Red, yellow, and blue are 1,2,3 like the song, row 4 is pink, row 5 is gold (for 5 golden rings), and row 6 is green.

Here's my finished baby quilt top.  I didn't trim any of the triangles (since I didn't know how to) and amazingly, the points are not perfect, but pretty good!

I'll still be participating in the Triangle Quilt Along and am glad I have a whole week to cut out my triangles.  I'll look forward to the "real" sewing instructions!

Also there's a linky party at My Go Go Life and I linked up there.  So Fresh Quilts linked up the cutest fox/raccoon triangle quilt I've ever seen!  Drop by for the fun!