FROM A HALF SQUARE TRIANGLE UNIT TO A .....

I had so much fun last year taking a nine-patch that had been cut in the middle horizontally and vertically and then seeing all the different "squares" I could come up with. I hope you didn't miss that post. It is one of my more popular ones.

At the last gathering of our NNL quilting group, we started planning and working on some quilts for the Linus Project. Kay had a bunch of half square triangle units she planned to work with. She had made them for a quilt for her son, but when she showed him her "design", he asked her where the plaids were.  (She didn't know he wanted plaid prints in the quilt.)  SO, she had all these half square triangle units that she decided she would cut up to make quilts for the Linus Project.  

While she was cutting the large units into fourths, I started playing with the smaller pieces.....just like I did when she cut the nine patch blocks up.  

First she squared the block up to 9-1/2 inches by trimming off the excess.

Then she cut in the middle at 4-3/4 inches.

And finally she cut each of these two strips in the middle at 4 -3/4 inches.

This gave her two solid squares and two half square triangle units.











Then I started playing around with them...

First, your traditional pinwheel...

Here they were with several different units that she had cut (We were trying to decide how she was going to arrange them for the Linus Quilt. We liked this idea but she didn't have a piece of fabric that we liked to go with them for a sashing and border.) 

Anyway, here is another design I came up with....

and here with two "blocks". (I wanted to see how the pattern would look on a larger scale.)

another different one....(I liked the looks of this one.)












And finally a different block....

I call this one
"Day"....

and this one "Night"....
















I am anxious to see Kay's quilt. Since we were having so much trouble with the print for the sashing and borders, she put them away and worked on something else that day.  I will update this the next time we meet and show you her quilt.