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Summertime

This one follows on with my fascination (obsession) with Half Square Triangles and the Easy 8 Method!

A bright and cheerful Summertime quilt made with Half Square Triangle blocks.

The quilting design is flowers and bees, totally summer! Quilted by "The Stitch House" here in Brisbane

My favourite fabric and quilting shop in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Bees and flowers in the quilting design, summer colours in the quilt blocks

..... the rest of the story

The starting point for this quilt was the block designs, looking purely at it from a HST perspective. I wanted to work a quilt that was solely created using 3" (finished) HST's.

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I found these two blocks, then created the quilt in my EQ software. From a colour perspective I was looking to distinguish between the two blocks, but not overwhelm either, so I auditioned a number of fabric colours before settling on the Pink and Orange for one and the Lemon and Lime for the other. The image makes the orange look more of a tan, but it is orange.

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The quilt design is flowers and bees, a perfect design for a summertime quilt.

The colours of summer, lemon, lime, pink and orange. A fun quilt

This block pattern really allows you to focus on your points. Not all of mine are perfect, but were close enough.

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The borders were one from each block, I chose the lemon and orange.

The binding could have been either the green or the pink. I had plenty of the pink spare, so that really made the choice easier!

Quilted on a Bernina Qmatic longarm machine at The Stitch House
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