Another Bear Paw

 I just can't stop making these Bear Paw baby quilts.  The original tutorial is this one from In Color Order.  The borders on the tutorial are wider than mine are here so I didn't follow the tutorial completely.  This was a last-minute present, and I'm trying to use up fabric I have, so I used all fabrics that I already had.   The blues are very scrappy - some Charley Harper scraps with some other blue scraps off an old Toy Story duvet cover I bought in a charity shop and changed from single size to cot size years ago.  The backing is a lovely bird fabric that a friend gave to me. I often use up smaller pieces for backings but since this was last minute it was good to have a bigger piece.  The birds on the back also nicely matched the Charley Harper bird scraps.  This is definitely one of my go-to quilt blocks. Does anyone else have favourite blocks? I do need to try out some different blocks soon too!

Bear Paw baby quilt

Back of baby quilt

Half square triangles

I've got a few quilts finished this year that I haven't shared yet so I'm going to start with this half square triangle baby quilt.  

I had this fat quarter of the Cotton and Steel tigers and another fat quarter of the Art Gallery Fabrics moons.  I really wanted to use them in a baby quilt so I decided a simple HST quilt was the answer.  This is made in the same way as the monochrome quilt I made in 2020.  It's just lots of 9.5" squares of fabric which are then sewn up into half-square triangles.  The longest bit is always deciding on the placement!  I think this has turned out really well and I love the colours and fabrics together.  

I couldn't decide what colour to bind it with and when I asked for opinions in our London Modern Quilt Guild group a few people suggested a lime green. Luckily i had leftovers of this Robert Kaufman Brussel linen in pickle. The lime green was such a good idea and it really works with the other colours. I absolutely love this shade of green, and the texture of this fabric. I'm tempted to get more but am really trying to use up fabrics I have rather than add more! 

You can see the last scraps of the printed fabrics on the reverse of the quilt, along with the very last of the green linen.  I had good fun piecing together all the bits for the quilt back, I like being restricted by the amount of fabric and trying to make it work.

There's not much else to say about it really, there's a good tutorial here for making a simple half square triangle unit.  I really like making half square triangles and it's always fun playing about with the placement.