Grizzly Mountain Quilt by square in a square/ jodi barrows

It took a couple of years, but my Grizzly Mountain quilt is finally done!

Love love love the colors...

and all the little triangles...

Theres over 900 red and white half square triangles in here. that's not counting the triangles around the stars!

How do you make that many HST's?

Here's how to make alot of half square triangles.

This isn't the best tutorial but i can't find all my pics.

Take your two fabrics and lay them right sides together.

Draw lines in a grid. Sew 1/4" down both sides of the lines

(Don't draw the diagonal line you see on this fabric. oops)

How to Calculate making 4 half square triangles from 1 square.

DIVIDE the UNfinished size you need by .63

For example: if I want a 3" hst, (2 1/2 finished size), that would be 3/ .63 = 4.76. So the lines would be 4 3/4" apart.

 

Then you'll cut the squares apart in an hourglass pattern.

Be very careful as you cut, cut right on the point where the lines intersect or they'll come out all crookedy.

When you open them, you'll have lots of half square triangles.

They don't always come out perfect, you may have to do some squaring up.

I used my sashiko 2 machine to quilt this!

I love the hand stitched look. you can see them on the red triangles. I wouldn't do that much again with that machine, that was a bit over the top. It took sooooo long....

and looked just as good machine quilted as hand stitched.

Star Flower Pattern

This quilt pattern is called "Star Flower." It's from square in a square.

I just love the rich colors. The Navy blue is the only actual fabric from square in a square.

I want to say it was "memories of the civil war II"

I chose my own to go with it but it looks very similar to hers.

 

Yummy!

 

 

Here is me and my friends with Jodi Barrows at the Phoenix quilt show Jan. 2018.

That was super fun!

I wish the pic wasn't so blurry,....

we're also working on her "Grizzly Mountain" quilt. I adore it!

So coming soon.....

 

The flower were quite tricky, so im including some photos of how I did it just for fun.

(I did not use the square in a square method.

I did my own measurements and did an alternate method.

I know.... shocking!)

 I sewed 4 triangles onto the sides of the gold colored square. first green then cream.

 

so they looked like this.

then, you cut them into four as you see in the upper right corner.

 

then you make some flying geese blocks. also tricky because you have you make half of them opposite each other. but it works out very easily. (I guess I'm not showing the full flying geese method here. oh well)

 

Here, you can see the two flying geese blocks on the sides and the one that was cut into four pieces. tricky eh?

 

 

here is the finished quilt block...with the flowers in the corners.

(The green isn't actually as bright as it appears to be here.)

 

I found a nice dark red for the back and quilted it pretty...:o)

Hip Holidays Free Quilt Soup Pattern (Henry Glass)

 

We finish our Christmas quilts in January right? That's how I've always done it.

Jan. of the next year...

I finished "Hip Holidays"

It's a little bit older, but I was able to find some of the orginal fabrics by Henry Glass. then I substituted some from local stores.

 

Currently, this is the only place I can see that Free Pattern online. If that disappears, feel free to leave a comment and your email and i'll send it to you.

 

I did some of it differently from the pattern. I didn't want to piece the crazy star, so I just appliqued it. I also appliqued the trees on the top row. It seemed easier. If you look closely, you can see the blanket stitch around this tree....

 

I'm surprised to say that I enjoyed the paper piecing the bows.

 

 

Here's a quick Tutorial on Paper Piecing.

Print the pattern as many times as you have blocks in the quilt. Use each section in the pattern as a template for each fabric. Cut a scrap of each fabric larger than your template pattern. I stacked them here. I also drew myself a little arrow to show me which side of the pattern I would be sewing down.

 

Now, turn the paper upside down. You're sewing the fabric onto the back of the paper with the fabric facing away from the paper, it's sort of a double backwards thing. I place the first piece, A2 cream behind it's spot on the paper, right side out, and the bow on top of it right side together so that it's hanging over the line about a quarter inch and pinned it.

 

Turn it over and sew on the line on the TOP of the paper between A2 and A1.

 

Open it up. Here's what it looks like on the back.

 

When you open it, it should cover all of that space plus at least a quarter inch.

Here I show how I hold it up to the light to see if it's got coverage.

 

Work your way in order across the pattern. Lay the next piece on so it will fit when you sew on the line between A1 and A3. Hold it up the light to make sure it covers it's space plus a minimum of a quarter inch around.

 

When you're done, trim on the dotted line (on this pattern) or giving yourself a quarter inch seam allowance all the way around.

 

It's not a good method for fabrics with nap, but it was quite fun!

 

 

I'm particularly pleased with the pretty machine quilting I did from the back so I could see better.

I mimicked the pattern on one of the fabrics...

 

Here's mine. Such pretty colors!

 

 

 

Halloween 1904

 

 This quilt pattern is called "Halloween 1904" by Blackbird Designs. It's one of my favorite quilts because it's done with so many vintage looking fabrics and colors. Don'tcha just love it on this bed?!

 

 

heres' mine.

I'm creating a record or tutorial of how I did some of this, partly for myself so I can remember how I did it. ;o)

  

Here's a fast way to make lots of half square triangles (HST's) when quilting....

There is actually a better way where you draw the triangles 1 1/4" bigger than the finished size of the triangles and sew 1/4 " away from each side of the straight lines. then you cut on the diagonals. But I forgot about that, so I did this:

 

Layer the two fabrics right sides together and draw lines on the same size that you would cut the triangles. Draw a diagonal line through the squares. Sew 1/4" away form each diagonal line. 

 

Use your rotary cutter to cut on all the lines.

 

Press them open. Presto! You get these very satisfying little piles of HST's. :o)

 

Next I made the squares and appliqued stars on.

 

 

Then add the HST's around the edges...

***side note: the colors in these assembly photos look brighter than in real life.



 My blocks are smaller than the original pattern. My blocks are 18" with the saw tooth triangles on.

 

I tried sewing them together stacked in columns, sewn in rows. I stacked it wrong, but it still came out ok. :o) Here's me trying to wrap my head around how to do this... 

 The third column is layed on top of the second column right sides together in this picture.

Here's the whole thing. The rows are sewn together with threads attaching them to the next row. That way, you don't have to wonder which row goes where. It's all "basted," ready to go. 

The only down side is that you have to work with the whole big quilt top the whole time instead of just a few rows at once. But it really is a great way to stay organized so you don't have to keep laying the quilt out again and again.

 

close up of the threads attached.

 

All done and quilted

the 3 pumpkins up close. 

Again, the oranges are brighter in these pictures than they are for real.

 

 

i made up a crow block...

 

 

 I love the different creams all scrappy...

 I quilted squiggly diagonal lines...easy.

 

the occasional rusty brown homespun plaids really make it... 

 

the binding and backing are awfully cute too..

Ready for Halloween!