Amazing idea for a sampler quilt

I do *not* like working with triangles- I consider them to be a necessary evil in quiltmaking. These are great blocks for a sampler, BUT there are many pieces in those blocks that could be a flying geese unit rather than 2 half square triangles. Using flying geese would save a bunch of seams to sew and points to match. There are other speed piecing techniques that would save on the number of seams in many of those blocks, too. I am always left muttering and shaking my head when blocks have more seams than are really necessary. I prefer to have as few pieces to cut and sew and match as I can figger out.

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A keeper site for sure. Thanks, Monique.

I agree there are many seams that could be eliminated from some of the blocks, but if you are making a scrappy quilt from HSTs that have been sewn from scraps over a long period, the HSTs are already made. I trim scraps to squares now and make HSTs by using them (one light with one dark at random) for my sew-on/sew-off pieces. They can really add up over a month or so.

All seams are not bad lol and I would rather chain piece HSTs than FG blocks.

And while I would not add seams to a block, there is something very "nice" about a quilt that has an even seam distribution too. I have made this quilt

variations) more times than I care to remember for animal welfare fundraisers, and I always piece the sky section to help keep the finished top flat. Without some seams the sky tends to balloon, and the use of different sky fabrics looks good to boot.

Half square triangles..... moan......feeling dizzy and ill........

I love those geometric patterns. They're so stunning and precise and perfect. I am none of those things, LOL. My solution would be to print it out on butcher paper, cut out the pattern pieces, iron ir on, cut out what's not supposed to be there, fuse to background square. And hope nobody looked too close.

I am just in awe of people who can do that kind of lovely percision piecing and quilting.

Sunny

thanks for sharing, Monique. I like the look done by batiks with black background, it's so elegant!

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Oh wow! that's fantastic! I have saved the sites for a time when I can settle down and *really* look at them. Thanks Monique. Just my kind of thing! I'd get really good at half-square triangles, too! . In message , monique writes

Could this be the first time I disagree with you, Leslie? The whole 'game' is that all the squares are made from the same pieced unit. It would take all the fun out to look at the blocks individually and propose different ways of making them. Not, of course, that you are wrong in stating that it could be done; but the blocks only exist, as such, because they can be created from half-square triangles! I honestly think that, with this, I could make my aim of one day making a scrappy quilt come true >g< . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Ah-ha! Just what I must squirrel away in my techniques file (never having done anything other than one at a time >ghave to be scrappy, is making a grid on a sheet of paper with all the

I do grids if I need a lot, I do scrappy pairs as leaders and enders, but always sew a bit bigger and then trim down. Then they are Perfect, with no dog ears hanging off. What's the big deal? I agree with Monique. It's only triangles. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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Have all the fabric ready for your Christmas Tree Wallhanging too, but at the moment the Starry Starry blocks are getting in the way a bit. I thought I'd better do them now so I won't be in a mad rush later. I even have a collection of tiny ornaments and mini sways of bells to put on it. Just have to make the tree by next Christmas!

Sunny, all is not lost. One day I had the wild idea of making an applique Churn Dash block because I knew I could never get the points right for a pieced one. Several months later while searching online for applique animal patterns I found pictures of several quilts made of applique versions of traditionally pieced blocks, one was actually a churn dash quilt. So I'm not the first one to think of making a traditional pieced block in applique. It has been done many times before. Anyway, you could do the same if you want. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I made the sky from blocks the size of the nine-patch blocks in the stairs, so they were quite big. I don't think I ever made the EXACT pattern. I just sized the blocks to what I wanted, and on one larger version I had seven cat silhouettes. There is a great web site that has lots of them -

and I liked to use different ones for a bit of variety. One silhouette I did on a couple of quilts was of a cat walking towards the right, and I put it at the bottom left corner and cut off, as if the cat was walking "off stage". Another was of a cat stretching upwards as if reaching or sharpening claws, right in the centre at the bottom as if in front of the stairway reaching up. Picking the cats for each quilt was always fun. BTW - depending on the size of your xmas tree quilt a good source for decorations is the flashy little earrings and brooches they have in the discount shops around Christmas. You can pick them up for next to nothing right after Christmas in the sales. We bought up the whole lot here last year, ready for next year lol

This year I am making a mini version of the wall hanging and I have a set of pewter bracelet charms representing the 12 days of Christmas to use on it. I plan to use glass beads for lights, and string very small beads for garlands.

Absolutely! I never follow the 7/8" rule. I prefer to cut to an easier-to-see measure and trim the HSTs to a nice clean finish. Makes piecing them together a "piece of cake" (pardon the pun - it's VERY early here lol)

Howdy!

What you said, Monique. I love working w/ HST. So many options:

R/S

Cheryl,

Thank you for that website - I just love it to bits. Cats are my all time favourite animal.