Again, I'm using up the triangle fabric pieces leftover from the wedding quilt I did this fall (see posts from Oct. 19 "It was a wonderful Wedding" and Oct. 30 and 31 The triangle series #1 and #2 ).
The leftover wedding fabric is the white and gray floral. The colorful fabrics are all odds and ends from my fabric stash.
I started by making as many half-square triangle blocks as I had left over triangle pieces of (the white background fabric). This made quite the pile of 4.5" squares.
The design was one I came up with by just playing with the blocks on my design wall.
The base of my finished quilt is a simple 8-pointed star with a diamond block in the center. The 8-pointed star is a very basic design motif and can be found under various names. The 8-pointed star has a long history in art and architecture, and has also been used as a building block in many quilt designs through quilt history.
After settling on the middle area of my quilt I played with various ways to turn the remaining half square triangles blocks to fill up the rest of my quilt. I decided on lines of squares to give the appearance of radiating from the star.
Below are a few of the other possible design ideas I experimented with. Both of the extra designs are a bit simpler with no star block centers but instead a focal fabric as the center.
The finished quilt is 46. 5" X 46. 5". Design is 4. 5" X 4. 5" squares and half square triangle squares. It's finished off with a 5" border with half square triangle blocks at the corners. Quilting was done with a meandering circle design on my domestic machine. The backing is flannel with a scrappy binding.
I hope this post gives you some inspiration for your next project. I think I still have enough half-square triangle block left for one more quilt so please stop by again.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!
MaryEllen
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