Time for Modern Quilt Club with City Craft! This month's homework assignment was to create a block (or, ahem, an entire quilt for you overachievers) using half square triangles. It was a great, easy, not intimidating first homework assignment for people like me who have made quilts, but have never bothered with silly things like patterns or measuring.
What's a half square triangle, you ask? You take a square of fabric, cut it in half from corner-to-corner (creating the hypotenuse...see, I know stuff), and you have a half square triangle. Pretty basic, and it's the building block for many awesome quilts. Oh, and quilting nerds call this a HST for short.
I loved how we all had the same mission, and everybody came back with something completely different.
Here are some pretties from this month. Warning, this might make you want to make a quilt.
This guy was my block. It is made up of a couple of gorgeous vintage fabrics from my stash (thanks Grandmommy) and a few modern fabrics to create a chevron pattern. My thought is that I'll do a different color block each month and make a ROYGBIV style sampler quilt at the end. We'll see how that goes.
Callie - the amazing shop owner at City Craft - made a HSQ block using striped fabric. You'd never guess that this block was made with triangles. Go Callie!
Shannon made my heart melt with this awesome diamond number.
And this is the part where I don't remember everyone's names. Sorry, guys. I'll get there. This was another cute chevron using fabric scraps.
HSTs to make a zig zag.
HSTs to make a Scotty dog.
Sharon brought it with a HST so big you could cover your house in it.
HSTs to make a diamond-ish mini quilt.
I nearly passed out when I saw this beauty. Those colors!
I literally want every quilt this woman makes.
HSTs with jerseys for a keepsake quilt.
HSTs as a chevron on the right.
Up next we are working on Process Driven Quilting. That sounded super overwhelming and complicated to me. After I regained consciousness they explained that you basically stack your fabric squares on top of each other, cut the squares up any which way you like, and then sew them together mixing all of the colors around. The image above has a process driven quilt sample on the left.
If you want an actual helpful description of what the heck I'm talking about, check out the study guide for this month.
Please share any photos you have of HST quilts on Instagram (tag @simplycraftedblog and @citycraft) so we can bask in their glory.
Thanks to City Craft for hosting. Mostly for providing wine and a good excuse to get out of my house without small children.
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