Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #263
This week’s design is pretty basic (very basic!) but I’m OK with that. I love how the overall layout feels fun and off-kilter because of the different sashing widths. I love the colour palette and those pops of acid yellow. And I love all the movement created by two of the most basic blocks around: half-square triangles and drunkard’s paths.
Here it is without the extra sashing around the HSTs and without the acid yellow.
Wouldn’t this make a great stash-buster pattern? Pick a colour palette and then just start mixing and matching prints (or solids). Quick and easy!
Sunday sketch #261
You can probably see how this design evolved from Sunday sketches #259 and #260 – a simple shape with strips sticking out. In this case, the shape is a teardrop-like combo of a half-square triangle and a quarter-circle, and the strips that extend from it create its mirror image.
And, like some of the designs from the past 2 weeks, it’s got sashing. I’ve used the same width of sashing as the width of the other strips. It’s a nice way of separating those background colours and keeping the whole design from feeling too crowded. And it’s narrow enough to let those diagonal lines – from one half-square triangle to the adjacent one – extend across the quilt design without interruption.
Sunday sketch #257
I had so much fun with last week’s Sunday sketch that I kept playing with those stacked flying geese.
This design is a single block on repeat. Each block has four quarters: two are all half-square triangles (in colour), and two are those diagonal flying geese (in dark grey). Rotating the blocks gives that nice back and forth motion.
The same blocks can also be rotated in other ways – with triangles facing towards or away from each other.
This week’s designs could be made into a quilt using half-square triangles (easy to make using the 8-at-a-time method) and flying geese units plus a few extra triangles. Or you could paper piece the geese shapes (a bit like you’d piece a pineapple blocks, but without cutting off the noses of the triangles). It’d be a great stash-buster or a lovely way to show off a bunch of coordinating prints.
