One of my closest friends recently had a baby boy. As luck would have it, her baby shares my son’s name. Her kid also shares his birthday with me. As she is moving out to another country, I decided to make her baby a quilt she could remember me by…
I has seen lovely Half Rectangle Triangle(HRT) at the Modern Quilt Guild a while back and they looked very interesting….perfect for a little boy. I seemed to have the perfect fabric for the quilt and as I started to cut and sew, the shapes fell in place like magic…I continued and the quilt top kept looking better and better. I kept sewing like I was possessed and soon enough the quilt was ready ! It turned out better than expected !
Here is the process depicted pictorially…
The Fabric:
The Type I -HRT(Half Rectangle Triangles):
Both type of HRT(Half Rectangle Triangles):
The layout:
The quilt top:
Basting the quilt:
And the final quilt on my sofa
Linking it to WIP Wednesday !
April 11, 2012 at 7:16 pm
i LOVE this quilt. I too had seen the half rectangle triangle tutorial and thought wow that would look great but haven’t made one yet but I am definitely going to now!! I am “slightly” obsessed with half square triangles so it only seems natural to love the hrt’s! Again beautiful quilt. I can’t remember did the tutorial give rectangles sizes? Do you mind sharing what size your rectangles are?
April 12, 2012 at 2:57 am
Pretty pastel like colors..you did a great job!
April 12, 2012 at 3:32 am
Beautiful, fluffy and soft Sonalee
April 12, 2012 at 3:36 am
What a beautiful quilt! I love your choice of colours and the idea of using the HRT method on rectangles is one I’ve got to try!
April 12, 2012 at 3:36 am
Very Nice job…neat stitching…love the color combo as well…Beautiful! I still don’t know when will I can seriously making a bigger quilt for myself
April 12, 2012 at 5:41 am
This is lovely! Thanks for sharing!
April 13, 2012 at 1:25 am
This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing the pictures of the work in progress. I have never made half triangle rectangles, but it looks like fun. I’ll have to try it.
April 13, 2012 at 11:09 am
Oh it is just gorgeous. Love the colours.
Thanks for linking up to the And Sew We Craft Together Linky Party
April 23, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I just love the baby quilt!