Dressed Up Half Square Triangles in a Pyramid Layout

Dressed Up Half Square Triangle Blocks in a Pyramid Layout

7/1/2017

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Today while researching (i.e. wasting time???) on Pinterest, I came across this antique quilt. Wouldn't this be a great setting for our dressed up half square triangle blocks?

I knew I needed to try some of my half square triangle blocks in this setting (with a little bit more modern coloring).

Panama Pyramids Antique Quilt owned by Linda Collins of Quilts in the Barn

Pyramid Quilt Drafted by Kari Schell using Electric Quilt 7

If you want to see how to draft the blocks in this quilt, check out part 1 of my Dressed Up Half Square Triangle challenge.

Here is the Electric Quilt layout I used.

Electric Quilt Layout. The key to success is sizing the block so the Height is 1.75 x the width

New Dressed Up Half Square Submissions

Love the designed half square triangle blocks that readers are sending to me. Here are the new ones.

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Judy

7/1/2017 01:38:16 pm

But the Panama Triangles are not HST's but 60 degree or equilateral triangles.

Kari Schell

7/1/2017 01:40:55 pm

Judy -- Agree. But sometimes it is fun to set our square blocks in different settings to see other possibilities.

Cathy

7/2/2017 02:58:14 am

I get a lot of HST shapes, because I often do on point settings on my quilts and that automatically makes a square with a line diagonally with half of it pieced and half plain. I know I could just drop the entire block into the side triangles, but I'd think it would change the yardage needed to complete the blocks. So once I set a square into those side triangles, I delete the lines from half the block. I intended to submit some of them, but have been too crazy busy recently to look for some of the examples.

7/2/2017 01:38:28 pm

Yes -- You are correct in how EQ handles the partial blocks in this setting. Obviously this can cause your fabric yardage to be overstated. When I am doing an initial design I don't care as I just am looking for a setting that looks good. But if I am planning to piece the quilt or create instructions, I will create add a dividing line and "delete" the segments" on one side of the line. In that situation I typically color the unused area with an "ugly" fabric so I know not to buy that particularly fabric when I am at the store. I thought I had this in a video -- but can't locate it at the moment.

Cat

7/2/2017 02:54:52 am

I think Kari's referring to putting the HSTs (made into squares) into the diamond shaped setting? You can see from her example, the bottom half of the setting is not pieced, but the top half is. I've done this before and I had to get a bit creative to get the shapes I wanted when the square blocks were dropped into the diamond shapes. "I" personally couldn't 'see' it in my head, so had to use trial and error to get the drawing I wanted. The diamond shapes are 4 sided, they're just angled in that setting, instead of being square. The line between the 2 HSTs is the line that makes the diamond shapes into 60 degree triangles. If I'm misunderstanding your statement, my apologies, just ignore me, please.

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