A Year of Christmas – November
When I first saw Jenny Doan’s The Falling Triangles Quilt: Easy Quilting with Layer Cakes! on YouTube, I fell in love with the pattern. I love the effect of floating squares. But she makes her half square triangles in such a way that the outer edges end up being bias edges. Having tried this with her Disappearing Hour Glass pattern, I knew I did not want to wrestle with stretching issues again. I also wanted to decrease the size of the quilt to a throw. The pattern redesign makes HST blocks the traditional way and only needs 6 fat quarters. I increased it to 8 for more of a scrappy effect. The actual quilt image features even more as I was using up numerous left over red and green fabrics from my previous Christmas quilt projects. You can use whatever combination you like to come up with 72 HST blocks.
PDF pattern: Tipsy Triangles Christmas
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I started this quilt 4 years ago and just getting back to it! Probly a silly question but what is the finished block size supposed to be? Just want to make sure I’m doing it right. Thank you!
The unfinished size of each block is 8.5 inches. The finished size is 8 inches.
Finished size as in after you squared up the block?
If you are a new quilter, finished versus unfinished block terminology may be a bit confusing.
The finished size of a quilt block is the size of the block after it has been attached to other blocks in the quilt top. It is measured from outer block seam to outer block seam.
The unfinished size of a block is the size of the block from edge to edge before it is attached to any other blocks. As it relates to these blocks, once you have pressed and squared up your blocks, they should measure 8.5 by 8.5. After you have attached the blocks together, they should measure 8 inches between the seams that attached the blocks.
The half inch difference between the two is the quarter inch seam allowance on each side. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much!