Scrappy HST's

A long time ago, I saw a picture of a quilt made with triangles or Half Square Triangles (HSTs). I knew I wanted to try the idea of having a square in the middle and triangles radiating out in four directions. After a little figuring, Scrappy HSTs was created. I have no idea if it is like the quilt I saw but the middle is the same.

You can see the white square in the middle. I began with HSTs that were 3.5" square and finished at 3" square. I wanted the colored fabrics to read solid but I did vary from that a little.

I made this a quarter at a time. My very rough line shows you a quarter. Think of cutting the quilt on the two diagonal lines through the middle.

For each quarter, I began at the right with a setting triangle. Next I made a strip with an HST and a setting triangle. Then I made a strip with 2 HSTs and a setting triangle. I continued working to the left until the last strip had 13 HSTs and a setting triangle. Then I joined the strips. When I had 4 quarters made, I joined them. I like the design made on each of the corner-to-corner diagonal of the quilt - it looks like flying geese.

Size:         64" square

Thread:     Glide 50-wt, top -17543 Lt Grey, back - 50172 Autumn

Batting:     Dream Cotton
Quilting:    Loop de loop (large)

I quilted this with a large loop-de-loop, one loop in each HST.

The back is orange fabric from my stash.

The binding is some leftover orange Grunge fabric. This is a donation quilt on which I finished hand-stitching the binding at a recent retreat.