What to do with leftover HST's????

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11-13-2011, 01:29 PM

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Rose L

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Those are large ones. What about quartering some of them? You'd get two smaller HST's and two small solid blocks. Then play around with arrangements of both the large blocks and the small ones to form a new design. Could be lots of fun!

11-13-2011, 08:25 PM

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Here is what I've come up for the Carpenter's Star. What do you think?

11-13-2011, 08:38 PM

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I don't know why it's not uploading my picture.

11-13-2011, 09:01 PM

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I really like both your quilts. That's alot of hst's... Love the colors.

11-13-2011, 09:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ptquilts

here are a couple of patterns I have made with HST's.

Barb, by any chance did your second quilt shown come from a book "Spectacular Scraps" by Judy Hooworth and Margaret Rolfe? It is a book I really love. It has a ton of patterns, all of which only use HST's. The patterns are developed by your choice of fabrics, and by the placement of darks and lights. As soon as I saw it, I thought of this book. Anyway, both are beautiful, and they do show how pretty quilts can be just using HST's.

11-14-2011, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by aorlflood

Using Bonnie Hunter's method to get bonus HST's, I now have 44 5" HST's and 30 4" HST's leftover from the making of the quilt in this picture.

Does anybody know of any patterns that use HST's? or have any idea of what pattern to do with them? I'm thinking probably lap size...

I really like your design is there instructions/pattern for the layout ??? This would be perfect to make one of my sons ...

11-14-2011, 05:43 AM

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You could always use them to do a border on another scrapy quilt/table runner.

Lynn

11-14-2011, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Lori S

I try to incorperate into the border of the quilt , since they already have coordinated fabrics.

LOVE this idea!!! I would incorporate into border - maybe a flying geese? or just line them up along edge. Also matching pillow shams would be a great idea - if its a lapsize quilt you could always made a "bag" for it using your leftovers.

I do like the scrappy quilts shown also. Let us know what you decide

What pattern did you use for this - Just love it- pm if you can - probably wont find this back lol thanks!!!

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11-14-2011, 06:04 AM

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Any inspiration from the different lay outs for log cabins? Love the soft colours in the quilt.

11-14-2011, 06:15 AM

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Some people have asked for the name of the original quilt...

The original quilt was made from a pattern called Stars Over the Prairie and was in a book called By Request put out by Gathering Friends.

It was very fun and easy to make and used up a LOT of scraps!