Last month my oldest turned 10. TEN! Hard to believe ten years have passed since she was a little tiny sweet baby. She is a great girl and into style and trends and all things bright and beautiful (like most 10 year olds!). I made this Half Square Triangle quilt for her gift and it is a big hit. It is similar to this picnic blanket I made last year.
I used this technique to cut my HSTs and I used bella solds from Bloomerie fabrics. The fabric was wonderful and the colors were so bright and bold. It was exactly what I wanted. The fabric colors I used were zen grey, amelia orange, peacock, peony, purple and buttercup. I ordered a 1/2 a yard of each of the six fabrics and then cut the 1/2 yards into 18” squares that were cut down into the 8 HSTs. I used the extra 6” strips to make squares to mix in and fill empty spots.
Although I shopped and shopped online for the backing and binding, I ended up just going to Joann fabrics so that I could make sure that the colors matched. I knew that I wanted something with a bold print for the backing and this cute peacock fabric worked great. Also, the polkadot orange for the binding was fine. I would have preferred a stripe but I just couldn’t find one I liked at Joann’s so this had to work!
Below is my poor attempt at the classic outdoor photo of the quilt floating in the air~
The colors are wierd and the photo quality is poor since my fancy new camera still baffles me sometimes. But at least you can see how all the squares fit together. Although it was my intention to put it together randomly, I still paid attention to mixing colors and letting some triangles and squares block together. I really liked how modern it felt in the end.
Quilts are a challenge! The biggest challenge for me is how time consuming they are and also the actaully quilting. It’s a pain to wrangle all that fabric on my machine. But this half square triangle type is a simple and fun construction and a twin size is not too hard on your regular home machine. Making a quilt always makes me admire quilters who create complicated tops and the even more complicated quilting patterns!
