Half square triangle quilts

I’m a sucker for a Half-Square Triangle (or HST). I was wasting time on gaining inspiration from Pinterest and came across this fabulous image with soooooo many different HST block combinations. If you’ve seen it before, then feel free to move along… but if you’re like me and haven’t seen it before, ENJOY! Image Source Are you on Pinterest? Do you use it regularly?

Pinwheel sizes, Cluck Cluck Sew Fast HST method - starch the starting squares = 4 HSTs turn out perfectly. Here are the starting square sizes and finished pinwheel sizes from them

Blogged at Bloom. Quilt plan drawn with Quiltography app.

Short-cuts for making and squaring-up multiple Half Square Triangle Quilt Blocks at once. Video tips and time-saving tutorial.

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Half-square triangles are one of the most versatile units in quilting and these tutorials and size charts will help you achieve the accuracy you need!

I've seen quilts like this with white backgrounds; I almost think it would be cool in a navy or grey.

Seven half-square triangle layout patterns. http://demonicmarshmallow.blogspot.com/2013/02/diagonal-two-color-squares-tutorial

Make Half Square Triangles Fast - 8 at a time! Make tons half square triangle blocks with this easy tutorial. Click to get the Half Square Triangle Chart

I've had this quilt quilted for over a week, but haven't had a chance until now to get the photos of it taken. It was such a fun quilt to make and I'm so happy with how it turned out. I used a ton of colorful scraps and quilted it with very organic vertical lines in a cream colored cotton thread. The batting is Warm & Natural cotton. For the backing, I used a pretty plaid 100% cotton home dec fabric. Just a bit heavier in weight than the quilting cottons in the quilt top. It's cheerful…