Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re having a look at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! Today we’re looking at HST triangle papers – this is the best, most accurate… Read More
HST Tutorial: Strip Method
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re having a look at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! Today we’re stripping down to work with strips of fabric to create half square… Read More
HST Tutorial: Eight At A Time
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re looking at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! On Monday, we had a quick recap of how to create the standard and alternate half… Read More
HST Tutorials and Tips for Accuracy
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re going to have a look at a few different HST tutorials (and the maths formula!) to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy.That way you can choose which method will… Read More
Having A Starry Time Blog Hop: Tutorial and Giveaway
The final stop on the Having A Starry Time blog hop is right here! The Fat Quarter Shop’s Triangle Papers On A Roll have been so fun to use – big thanks to Kimberly and the gang for supplying us with Triangle Papers to try out and giveaway! They’re are available in a range of finished sizes from 1″ to… Read More
Just A Quickie
Just a quicky to remind you that today’s stop at the Having A Starry Blog Hop is over with Jenelle from Echinops & Aster! She will have a gorgeous star block and a giveaway for you too.
A Very Merry HST BOF: Christmas Wreath
Welcome to the Block Of The Fortnight in the A Very Merry HST BOF series! Every second Tuesday I’ll be posting a block pattern to make a Christmas tree decoration. Today’s block is the Christmas wreath! What you will need Traditional method: 10 – 4″ squares of background fabric 6 – 4″ squares of print fabric Pair your fabrics up:… Read More
HST Tutorial and Maths Formula
Half-square triangles, or HSTs, are one of the top quilt block units in quilting. The number of ways in how you use them is endless, and the number of HST quilt blocks surely number in the thousands! I would have to say that HST quilt blocks are my favourite for this very reason. You can make them any size, in… Read More
In Color Order BOM progress
I am an avid fan of Jeni from In Color Order, and when she announced that she was going to run a HST BOM this year, I couldn’t wait to start my first BOM! I even had a fat quarter bundle of Summersault by Erin McNorris that I had won from Want It, Need It, Quilt! months and months ago that had… Read More