She may not yet have a name or a place to sleep, but, by golly, baby girl has a quilt.
I felt like I needed to start challenging myself a bit, so I decided to tackle the half-square triangle quilt, or HST. Supposedly easy and a gateway to fancier quilting. Truthfully, it wasn’t that much harder than simple patchwork squares, just the extra step of making the triangle squares. (There’s a great shortcut for that at In Color Order.)
The herringbone pattern was inspired by this grey and white quilt, but I don’t have enough restraint to only use neutrals in a situation like this.
The taupe polka dot fabric on the back is vintage yardage from my grandma. I had been saving it to use especially in a quilt for this baby. Gender neutral! The rest of the back was pieced with Alexander Henry “Market Stalls” print (which inspired the whole color palette to begin with) and scraps from the quilt top.
The quilting itself is easier to see on the back. I followed the peaks and valleys creating a fun zig zag pattern.
I am so in love with quilts with striped bindings. I couldn’t resist giving it a try myself.
It’s so not perfect, but I still love how it turned out. This is only my fifth quilt, so I think I am making progress!
p.s. I forgot to note the size above. It’s 38″ by a long-ish 55″.
I LOVE your color choices! And that ‘Market Stalls’ fabric is just plain fun! Thanks for sharing 🙂
So glad you like it! Thanks for commenting!
Did you use a pattern for this quilt? I love the way the quilt looks and would love to make one with different fabrics but an unsure on the amount of fabric to get for each color.
Sorry, no official pattern. I just saw the design at the link I referenced above and did my own math. It’s been about two years since I finished it, so I don’t remember how much of each fabric you would need. My colors are pretty random on the quilt top, and if you look closely, the fabrics are not used equally. I sort of just make things up as I go along!
Hi! Love this quilt. My daughter is going to start her first quilt and wants to do this one. Can you measure and tell me how big each of your half square triangles are? If you were doing a twin bed, would you make your half square triangles larger?
Hi Lacey,
I think the triangles were six inches tall. You could increase the size of the pieces or just add more rows. I’ve never really followed a true quilt pattern, just made the math up myself. You really can do whatever you want! Remember that everything shrinks a bit after it’s quilted and washed.
I would google “standard quilt measurements” or something like that to get the general dimensions of a twin quilt, but you could fudge them a bit if needed.