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| Ocean Waves Quilt 1998 Honeybees Guild Amish Challenge 43" x 56" |
This quilt was my first experience making lots of HSTs. I used the bias strips technique that I learned from a book by Marsha McCloskey. I just discovered a recent blog post from her explaining this process. You can find it HERE. The pieces shown in the photos below were made for another quilt, but use the same technique. I find this method to be extremely accurate for making lots of HSTs, and less tedious than making them oversized and trimming down.
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Julie in GA
Love all the bright colors in your Ocean Waves quilt. I guess that is typical of Amish quilts, lots of bright colors. I've never tried making HSTs with that method. I've seen it in a few books, I wasn't sure I could stitch it accurately enough for the HSTs to come out right.
ReplyDeleteYour determination paid off in a beautiful quilt! I haven't tried that method either. I did try the one where you cut one square at a time from the bias strip set, but I found I overcut and wasted a lot of fabric. I don't think it every occured to me that I could just cut strips from the bias set .... hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting technique for 1/2 square triangles. I may just have to try that out. Thanks for linking up at Throwback Thursday today.
ReplyDeleteYours is a wonderful example of Amish quilts. I saw a museum exhibit of them and they just glowed with color, like yours. I checked out Marsha's post, but could not understand it, and your pics looked different and easier. I still am afraid of HSTs, but maybe it will come to me.
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