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.
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