Since June, the Baltimore Christmas applique quilt has occupied all my time. Over the weekend I needed to sew and I'm not talking about the applique. I needed a brainless type of sewing and all you quilters out there know what I'm talking about. So I dug out those triangles, set Singer up and started to stitch. Ah bliss.
I have no clue how many half square triangles I've ended up with, but I know that several of the 'groupings' will work in a Quilt of Valor quilt. There are three groupings (from 3 different ladies) in red/white/blue. I think the ones with the yellow hanging on the design wall will look nice in a table runner, and so will those lime green ones on the sewing table.
What's on your design wall? To see more, visit Judy's blog.
I know exactly what you mean about 'just needing to sew' and I too love to rescue bonus triangles. :) That's what I've been playing with the last few days. :)
ReplyDeleteNice collection of HST!
ReplyDeleteI have been cutting for 4 days and I know what you mean. I'm ready to sit and sew! Wish you lived near me. I have signed up to do Comfort and Joy with Judy's group. Got my pattern today and am having heart palpitations! Not good!
ReplyDeleteI think you hit the jackpot!
ReplyDeleteThose HST are awfully big to have been thrown away. Were those ladies new quilters?
I totally get the need to sew mindlessly... get into your zone and put the pedal to the metal!
ReplyDeleteThose are large triangles to be tossed out... good on you for rescuing them and giving them a new life!!!
Nothing is on my design wall.... but I do have 5" square on my sewing table and am playing with them...
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I love making HSTs. I see you do too. And there are plenty ways to use them up...before you know it, they will all be gone!!
ReplyDeleteYou have my admiration. I am afraid I am one of the quilters who would have just tossed them, but I have a good friend who would claim them immediately. I have a drawer full of HST that I have collected over the years from various projects and still do not know what to do with them. I keep thinking one day a scrappy quilt of nothing but various sizes of pinwheels.
ReplyDeleteHSTs are super adaptable. Glad you rescued these and used them for therapy :)
ReplyDeleteI love this post! Love your pretty Singer, and the photo of all those blocks hanging there makes me want to run over to my machine and SEW! Enjoy!
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