These Half Star Quilt Blocks are made from HSTs and solid squares. Remember the Half Square Triangles blocks you made in Month One? Well, you get to make more! I’ve made a wish list of notions that will help you – and books that use HST blocks – all from Amazon.
How to Create and Square Up a Half Square Triangle (HST) Quilt Block
The Traditional Method of making Half Square Triangle Blocks (HSTs) is to place two identical squares right sides together. These squares should be 7/8″ larger than the finished size of the final HST. Draw a diagonal line on the back of one square. Sew 1/4″ on both sides of the line. Cut on the line and press to the dark.
You will have made two identical Half Square Triangle (HST) blocks. My personal preference is to cut squares 1″ larger than the finished size of the final HST and square it up to the correct size after pressing.
There are two ways you can square up your block.
You can place a square ruler so the diagonal line is directly over the seam and just cut two sides. Quilt-in-a-Day has a Square Up Ruler that uses this method.
Or you can press open the block (pressing to the dark) and square it up using a ruler the same size as the block you are making. A fussy-cut ruler with lines on both diagonals will be very helpful with this.
Download Color Me Creative Block Nine here.
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- 4/18/2022 Introduction and Block One
- 5/11/2022 Block Two: The Diamond Sawtooth Star
- 6/15/2022 Block Three: the Challenging Block
- 7/13/2022 Block Four: More Flying Geese
- 8/10/2022 Block Five: the Log Cabin
- 9/14/2022 Block Six: HST Quilt Blocks
- 10/12/2022 Block Seven: the Churn Dash
- 11/9/2022 Block Eight: the Center Star
- 12/14/2022 Block Nine: Half Star Quilt Blocks
- 1/11/2023 Block Ten: the Center of the Quilt
- 2/08/2023 Block Eleven: Borders
- 3/15/2023 Block Twelve: Finishing and adding a label
When are you releasing the row of the month?
Nancy Borland
I wasn’t planning on doing a row of the month, although that sounds like fun. I am testing next years Block of the Month now. It’s tentatively called “Summer Storm” and will look great in batiks.
The My Happy Place Rowalong at was sponsored by Seams to be Sew. She does that every year, and sponsors blog hops in between. I am participating in the Snowman blog hop in December. There is always something going on!
I’ve tried 3 times to request a copy of each block for the Color Me Creative BOM. So far I haven’t received any patterns. I receive emails for the blocks letting me know they’re ready as they become “available.” When I click on the block there’s only finished photos of each block, a “how to” on certain techniques and what tools I need to buy. The Printer Friendly link for each block only contains photos of finished blocks as well and an occasional “how to” for various techniques, but still, no directions for the block, such as what size to cut anything. Are we just supposed to figure out the size of each block based on the finished quilt size?