Shiny HSTs Chevrons and an HST Tutorial

By Andrea | September 21, 2012 |

I may have used affiliate links for some of the items in this post. Using an affiliate link to purchase an item won't cost you any more money, but I may receive payment if you click on a link and make a purchase. For more information, visit the disclosures page.

Thanks to my attempt to avoid finishing the (not) Purdue quilt top last week, I got myself started on another – much smaller – project, using my fabrics with gold metallic ink. For this project, I’m planning to use several fat quarters of fabric, along with a couple larger pieces of fabric I had in my stash.

I’m cutting my fat quarters into 6-inch strips, and cutting those strips into squares. That means I get 9 squares from each fat quarter. I’m matching each of my squares with one from the larger pieces of blue fabric, and using an HST technique which allows me to get 4 HSTs from each pair of squares.

I start with my 2 squares of fabric and place them on top of each other, with right sides facing.

I then sew a 1/4-inch seam all the way around the square. I generally do multiple squares at a time using the chain stitching method.

One I have all of my squares stitched up, I take them over to my cutting mat and – using a ruler and my rotary cutter – I cut each square into quarters on the diagonal.

The final step is to press all of my squares open. I always press my seams toward the darker (or thicker) fabric. You can then cut off the little triangular bits of fabric at the corners or leave them. I find it easier to match corners when they have been removed.

I’ve already pieced blocks from three fat quarters and have pinned them onto the sheet. I like the overall look of the chevrons, but I may adjust the order of the colors still. The finished quilt will probably be pretty small (crib or lap sized) because I don’t have a lot of my background fabric.

I’m also looking for a cotton with an entire all over metallic print. Let me know if you have seen one. I’m wanting to use it as a border.

Linky Parties we're participating in:
Mop It Up Mondays at I Should Be Mopping the Floor
Craft & Tell at Cherished Bliss

Posted in Quilting, Tutorials and tagged chevron, chevrons, half square triangle, half square triangle tutorial, half square triangles, half square triangles tutorial, HST, hst tutorial, metallic fabrics, process, project, projects, quilt, quilt design, quilt pattern, Quilting, tutorial, tutorials

4 Comments

Sameer on October 17, 2012 at 3:43 am

Great tutorial and a fun way to make a lot for sure and for lagerr HSTs this is really nice. But I agree with Sunni….I recently discovered Eleanor Burns’ method which will make 8 at a time from 2 squares, and you get NO bias edges. For smaller piecing, definitely check out EB’s.

- Andrea on October 17, 2012 at 2:07 pm
  
  I use this technique as well, but it doesn’t work well with the size of my initial fabric squares for this project, because then the finished HSTs are much smaller than I want for the project.
  
Becca on February 12, 2014 at 7:10 pm

Hey! I have some of that fabric (the last picture, right side). I think it cam with some remnants I picked up from Fabric.com. I think I have it sorted with some other gold-overprinted fabrics. I still don’t know what I’m going to make with it.

I’ve made terms with the HST block. I’m not a fan of the bias edges of that particular method, though.

Keep going!

- Andrea on February 12, 2014 at 8:19 pm
  
  What method do you use for HST blocks? I use this method, and also the method to make 2 from one set of squares.

4 Comments

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply