Inspired Quilting by Lea Louise
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Layer Cake HSTs Displayed on Design Board How to Make Perfect HST Blocks Modern quilting with layer cake HSTs is a fun and challenging project. Do you use Half Square Triangle (HST) blocks in your quilts? More importantly do your HSTs sometimes miss their mark with a snubbed point or two? They are an incredibly versatile block and always result…
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Let’s Upcycle Blue Jeans into Denim Tote Bag Are you ready to Upcycle Blue Jeans into Denim Tote Bag? It’s doesn’t seem that long ago that I was sorting through piles of blue jeans to make my grandson’s rag quilt. How is it that the pile never seems to go away? It’s a good thing there’s always something to make…
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Adorable Rag Quilt Secrets With the recent popularity of my recent rag quilts posts, here are a couple Adorable Rag Quilt Secrets to share. This quilt is perfect for a little girl to wrap herself up all nice and snug. The front is full of flowers in pink & purple with some great polka dot flannel on the back. There…
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Festive Christmas Quilts My Favorite Christmas Quilts My favorite Christmas quilt is my latest, pictured in the pin below. It’s the first HST quilt I’ve made with two different size blocks. Generally mixing up block sizes is normal for me, but when there are triangles involved, it takes a bit more attention. I love how this pattern turned out. Click…
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Modern Quilting with Layer Cake Half Square Triangles Preliminary Layout on Design Wall Quilting with Layer Cake HSTs Modern quilting with layer cake half square triangles takes advantage of using time saving precuts along with the Magic 8 Method to make lots of HSTs in a very short time. I’ve had fun using fat quarters to make large and small…
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Modern Fat Quarter Mini Quilt with HSTs Two 18″ x 20″ HST Mini Quilts made for Guinness with the Magic 8 Method Just this past Friday, the need arose to quilt, as it often does. Having finished a half square triangle quilt, I was ready for another. But this would be a modern fat quarter mini quilt with HSTs. A…
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