Mod Quad :: HST

I'm captivated!  Obsessed, smitten, enamored and gaga with Half Square Triangles that is!  It's not just about this quilt or the seemingly hundreds that I've made.  It's the fact that you can take a simple block and configure it into so many different things.  Simple or elaborate.  Big blocks, small blocks or combined.  

This latest quilt was inspired by one I made in January: Bye Bye Hand Dyed, where I used the last of my hand dyed fabrics.  I very well could have done an exact copy of it, but why not try something different!

Mod Quad
36 1/2" x 49"

As you can see it's a simple design focusing on different shades of yellow and light orange for the main rectangle.  Using negative space puts the emphasis on the shapes allowing them to be front and center.  Which is what I like about this particular design.  

You can add HST's to make your shape larger, or smaller - a square or rectangle - or both.

I like to play with straight line quilting when I make this type of design.  I tend to use 1/2" to 3/4" wide lines on smaller quilts and 3/4" to 1 1/2" on larger ones.  And I love trying to create interest with the lines.  

Focusing on the shape.  Or making a 'ghost' shape that is like a block in the quilt.  In this case it was the smaller block.  

I ended up quilting a series of blocks in a row.  This picture of the back shows what I mean by 'series' much better.

I've always had a special fondness for the combination of yellow and gray, so I grabbed my Aurifil 50 wt. spool of Canary (#2120) for this quilting adventure.  I love how it stands out against the Kona Shadow gray.  

I recently confiscated a stack of solids from my daughter Britt's stash and thought the bright orange would be a good compliment to the design.

I usually map out sections before quilting focusing on one large section for lines and then working the other areas with either a different width of lines or a different direction.

This was the first time I added the double lines in the corner.  Something different, yet it worked.

What's a post from me about a quilt without the usual 'pile' picture?!  The only think that would be better than this is if it had that dreamy crinkled look after washing!

Do you get sick of seeing the same old block in quilts?  Can there be too much of a good thing?

I think too much of a good thing can only be food related!  Too much ice cream, too much chocolate, maybe too much wine...but never too much when it comes to the creativeness and inventive ways of HST'S!

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