Every year around Thanksgiving I start making lists of what to give everyone I love for Christmas. And every year a handful of quilts somehow make the list. I don’t know why I do this to myself, because it ends up being the busiest couple of months for me. This one was made for my oldest son who is 14 years old. He’s almost as tall as this quilt so I might have to make him another one next year.
108 half square triangles
Pieced with solids in:
white, black, grey, dark grey, navy, aqua blue, turquoise, orange, red & yellow.
Quilted with 1" horizontal lines and extra soft minky on back.
Quilted by @leishafarnsworth
Backing fabric here @fabric.com.
HOW TO:
- I bought ½ yard of the fabrics I used the least and 1 yard of fabric for the ones I used a lot of and cut 10” squares.
- After placing two coordinating colors on top of each other with right sides together, I drew a line with a fine pencil from one corner to the other diagonal corner.
- Sewed ¼” seam using that pencil line as a guide along both sides of the line.
- Using my long ruler and rotary cutter I cut along the pencil line and then pressed open the two half square triangles.
- Trimming them up is super important, so I made sure they were an equal square size and made a giant pile of them until I had 108.
I’ve learned a fast technique of how to sew square quilts together and will show that method in another post.
Here is the smile I envisioned when I put his quilt on my list.
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