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Time to share another quilt from my book, Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle! You can find all the posts about Patchwork Essentials using the MY BOOK link at the top of every page, or here.
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I'm slowly going to share each quilt, in order, with the exception of a few that I've already shared. We've made it to the relative size chapter, and the first quilt is Vast!
For more on how the book is structured see this post.
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Need a copy of the book? Buy a signed one here: Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle
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Photo © 2015 Lauren Hunt for Lucky Spool Media.
I knew when I first had the idea for the book that I wanted to include a quilt that used supersized half-square triangles. I've played a lot with the idea in other quilts, like my Giant Vintage Star Quilt, so I wanted to include another variation on the idea.
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Photo © 2015 Lauren Hunt for Lucky Spool Media.
I wanted to play with all solids for at least one quilt in the book, as a personal challenge. I haven't made a lot of all solids quilts, but it felt like the right way to make this already bold design feel even bolder. I used Pure Solids by Art Gallery Fabrics for this quilt. I used the following colors: Raspberry Rose, Coral Reef, Empire Yellow, Sweet Mint, Blueberry Zest, Mauvelous, Verve Violet, and Snow.
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The absolutely gorgeous quilting was done custom by Melissa of Sew Shabby Quilting. I asked her to choose a different design for each color! This way it almost gives the solid colors a print feel, especially when you look at it from a distance. I love all the variety of design, it turned out just how I envisioned.
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I kept things pretty simple for the backing and binding. Another solid for the binding, and a blender from Minimalista for the back! I remember stocking up on clearance fabrics for backings before I started working on the book quilts. It didn't take long to go through most of my stashed backing fabric.
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Photo © 2015 Lauren Hunt for Lucky Spool Media.
I recently finished up the variation quilt top that is shown in the book, so I'll be sharing that quilt finish soon too!
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Happy Quilting!
Love your color placement and bold design!
ReplyDeleteThis is really lovely. I love the big block concept and the quilting puts it over the top! Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThose super-sized blocks made an awesome quilt!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
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