Over the last couple of weeks the topic for many of my posts have been about stitching from corner to corner on a square without drawing a line on the fabric. While I would love to say this was my creative idea, it was not. I'm not sure what quilter did it first but I found the method when I found Pam Bono. Sadly Pam is no longer with us, she passed in 2014. It was a sad day in the quilting community. You can read more about her death here.
If you've never heard of Pam a quick Google search is all you need. Since her passing her style has been imitated by many, including myself. You know what they say. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
She was also the first that I know of to make the The Angler I shared a few days ago.
Since learning her amazing little trick it seems to pop up in many of my own designs as well as those patterns I make from other designers. My current quilt has oodles of "flippy" corners. Some quilters will toss the clipped corners in the trash. I find it hard to trash any fabric. So I sew another line to make a bonus Half Square triangle.
The corners on this project are small but still usable in a mini quilt. I adjust my normal 1/4" to a 3/8" seam between the the two stitched lines. You can read more about the two lines here. The bonus half square triangle will measure 1.5".
Most of the time my bonus HST's are tossed in a basket that sits beside my sewing machine. This basket is just the tip of the HST iceberg. There's 3 more bags full of these in every color and size. Someday I hope to make a quilt with all of them. Occasionally I'll pull out a few for a quick project.
If you're not sure what to do with all of your clipped corners. I've put together a few of my favorite project to inspire your creativity.
One of my most recent projects was the Autumn Star quilt block.
The orange HST's were clipped from my Podunk Plaid quilt pattern.
When designing my Turnabout Tulips quilt pattern, I decided to include the clipped corners in the pattern. The pink pinwheels dancing around the center are clipped corners from the tulip blocks.
The 1.5" HST's are a little more challenging to use in a quilt. Pinning is very important when working with these small pieces. There's not much room for fudging!
The mini quilt above was made using the 1.5" clipped corners from my Promenading Tulips quilt.
Sweet Pickin's below is one of my favorite minis. The little basket blocks is made from several different sizes of bonus HST's.
The clipped corners came from my Cherry on Top Picnic quilt. It's a free quilt tutorial here on the blog. Yep, I love this one too! There's something about those sweet cherries! Well I could go on and on about my love of cherry decor, so I'll stop.
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Oh my goodness....When I googled her I found she did the Quick Rotary Quilts for Oxmoor House and had to get it down off the shelf. I loved Oxmoor House and White Birches back in the day. I wasn't into the names of designers, I think they publicize the designers more today which is good. I believe the first "designer" I knew by name was Georgia Bonesteel and I loved her Spinning Spool design. Then I learned a lot of techniques from Eleanor Burns but if it hadn't been for her tv series I probably would have only known QIAD. I think it's great that Eleanor gives credit to Sue and Teresa...I always wondered how Eleanor could get so much done. Today I think people know designers by name a lot more than way back in the 70's and 80's. I do cross stitch and other than Gloria and Pat Carson (converting Precious Moments to charts), I can't remember designer names from way back and now that I've started again, I know a lot of the designer names behind the company name. It's a good thing to give credit to designers and get to know them better-many of them are doing Flosstube videos on You Tube and it makes it so much more personal. I'm doing a quilt designed by Lori Holt that uses a gazillion HST's because I'm making it larger than called for and have a plastic tote full already of leftovers. I know I read that you can stitch another seam before cutting them so it's already sewn but I never do and I'm sure that won't be fun when I go to sew them. Honestly I want to mix up the colors so they're different than the quilts I'm working on.
ReplyDeleteIf my hubby saw that pick up truck he would be drooling just like about any man I'm sure! What pretty quilts! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI drooled over that truck! It was just not in the cards for me to have it at the time. But give it time, someday I'll have an oldie.
DeleteHi! I love the yellow fabrics you are using. Are they from a specific line of fabric? I'd love to get some.
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Thank you, They are from various lines of fabric. It's a scrappy quilt.
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