Dress Up Your Half Square Triangle

What are your thoughts when you need to make a half square triangle unit in a quilt?

​What about when you need to make 500 or even 1000 of them.

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I decided this post would be dedicated to bringing back respect for the half square triangle.  But in order to do so, it needs a little bit of dressing up.

So I gave myself a challenge to create 12 dressed up half square triangles.  Here were my "rules":

• One hour to create everything (i.e. don't overthink it)
• Design in Easy Draw only
• Draft blocks that were "piece-able"

Here are my blocks.

Here is my challenge for you (if you choose to accept it).

• Redraw each of the blocks above in Easy Draw.  (If you are struggling, download the image and bring it into Electric Quilt for tracing.)
• Draw one or two dressed up half square triangle blocks of your own (stick to working in Easy Draw).

Hint -- here are the settings I used for drafting all of the blocks.  Very basic!

If you would like to share one of your new blocks with my blog readers, please send me an Electric Quilt file with your favorite dressed up block by June 11th.

Over the summer I plan to share a number of posts on playing with these blocks.  That's all I plan to say for now.  :)

​But trust me -- it will be fun.

Online Classes Starting in June

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Drafting Easy Draw Blocks using EQ7

Have you ever found the “perfect” block online.  But then realized you wanted to piece it a different way.  Maybe you want rotary cutting instructions or a foundation pattern.  Or maybe you want a different size to incorporate into a different quilt.  With Electric Quilt you can redraft these blocks.  This instructor led online class will focus on how to “read a block” and then come up with the most efficient way to draft it with Electric Quilt.  Class starts Thursday, June 15th.

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Foundation Drawing Using EQ7

Be the first to learn the ins and outs of creating foundation patterns for paper piecing.  This brand new instructor led online class starts Monday, June 5, 2017.

​Cost:  $100

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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