UFO #23: Triangle Madness Quilt

About a year and a half ago I stumbled across a really cute quilt blog (http://www.goddessinprogressblog.com/quilts/2010/10/triangle-madness-week-1-strategery/) where she was using her scraps to create half-square triangles.  Half-square triangles (HST) are really cool because you can arrange them in so many different was and create a ton of different quilts.

I had a lot of bright colored scraps and decided to join along.  I really enjoyed going through my stash and cutting 4" squares for this project.

Then came time to make the HSTs.  It was a long process seeing that I made 324 HSTs.  But the worst parts were yet to come.  Because I used the traditional method to make the HSTs I had to square them up to the right size. I had to square up 324! IT WAS ANNOYING!  It probably took a couple of months of forcing myself to do it to finally get it done.  I thought it would be easy and quick from there, but the worst was yet to come.

Because my HST couldn't be placed in random order and there was no way to create "blocks". I had to sew the entire quilt in strips.  Which might not be so terrible, but every single point had to match perfectly to get the quilt to turn out. That meant pinning at every intersection.  It took about 1 hour to do 3 rows.  So lets just say this quilt got started, then stopped, then started, then stopped... It was trying on my patients.

But it is finally done!  Can you give me a HOORAY!

I found the back which fits perfectly with the colors.  Then I quilted 1/4" around the diamonds.  I finished it off with a scrappy boarder.  I  love how it turned out, though I'm not sure it was worth the head aches.  (If I ever get the notion to do this man HST again, please stop me.)  Because of the time that went into this quilt it is not going anywhere.  Now I just need to find a place to put it in my house.

  Stats:
Started in 2010
Finished December 2012

Size:53" x 53"
Quilted: 1/4" around the diamonds by me