I’ve been super productive on this quilt for the last couple of months, and I kept pushing this block back so I could use it for the month of tiny triangles in July … but I’m running out of time before I need to have it done so I can start sashing the center bottom section of the quilt. I figured if I started on it at the end of June, I hopefully wouldn’t finish it until July, so it would count.

I knew there would be some stitching of cream pieces to cream pieces, so I got out appropriate thread for that right away.

Then I started stitching the middle section. I was quickly sewing things together, and it didn’t occur to me to switch threads until I’d sewn the first part of the cream center “X” together … with red thread.

Still, it didn’t look too noticeable, so I decided I’d leave it in place, but I needed to make extra sure to use cream thread when I sewed on the other segment of the “X”.

Two days later, I stitched on the last segment of the “X” … again with red thread. Again, it didn’t seem too noticeable, so I just vowed to get it right, using cream thread, the next time I had cream pieces next to cream pieces.

I assembled the triangles that go around the center diamond (including the tiny triangles!), and then stitched those on to the center diamond. There was no overlap of cream pieces next to cream pieces, so everything went according to plan there.

I assembled the four border sections, then got ready to sew the two shorter borders on to the main section of the block. I congratulated myself on finally remembering to use cream thread, since there were cream pieces in the center section that were adjacent to the cream triangles in each border.

When I went to sew the two longer borders on, I naturally used cream thread again, since there were cream pieces in the center section that were adjacent to the cream triangles in each border.

It was only as I was wrapping up the block that I realized there were also red pieces adjacent to red pieces when sewing on the two longer borders … and I had just stitched those with cream thread.

I decided it didn’t look that bad. This was more of a stretch than saying that the red thread on the cream fabric (that has a little bit of red in the pattern) didn’t look bad. You can definitely see a cream stitch in the red border at top left. But I really didn’t want to do it over again.

So, instead, I will distract you by calling attention to how small the triangles are in 2025’s month of tiny triangles, by showing a photo of the triangles next to the obligatory shiny penny for reference:

Notice that I placed the penny as far away as possible from the visible cream stitch, for maximum distraction. Did it work?

It’s been eight years since the first time I compared the tiny triangles of a July block to the size of a penny. But the tiny triangles have gotten tinier as the years passed. I sized the original tiny triangles at a half penny, but these feel more like a quarter of a penny.

I finished this new block, in all its tiny-triangled, mismatched thread glory, on July 4th, and most of the stitching was done in July, so it seems reasonable to count this one for the 2025 month of tiny triangles.

But maybe I should do some more tiny triangles in my next block, just to be on the safe side.