Fun With HSTs

Perusing my stash, I noticed the 2022 Color of the Year Moda layer cake (10” squares). Again. Why did I buy them? Um…they were purple? Yup, that is likely why they have been sitting here for two years.

“Are you going to use them?”, I asked myself. “ Perhaps, maybe, someday.” “Not good enough!” Geez I can be quite the taskmaster. So I made a deal with myself and agreed to make something simple and fast and use that nagging layer cake.

The best thing to do with a layer cake? HSTs (half square triangles), of course. From one 10” square, you can make 4, 6.5” unfinished blocks.

I had Kaffe Facett yardage leftover from a previous project and quickly found two coordinating fabrics. After making a stack of 10” squares from yardage, work commenced on the HSTs.

So quick and simple! Stitch a 1/4″ seam around all the OUTSIDE edges of your right-sides-together 10″ squares. Then cut diagonally to each corner. Press and trim each HST to 6.5″.

When using HSTs, you don’t really need a pattern. Like log cabin squares, they can be arranged in numerous layouts.

This only took a few days to assemble and I have used about 70% of those pesky Moda layer cake squares. The quilt top size is 59″ square, unfinished.

My quilting pile is now getting perilously high! Let’s hope I can make it through quilting a few more before the urge to piece hits.

In a hurry? Have layer squares? Try a quick HST quilt!

Happy quilting!

Lennea