How To Assemble a Half Square Triangle Quilt

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Once you have all the half square triangles that you need, it's time to assemble them into a quilt top! You can save yourself a lot of time by pre-arranging the quilt squares on the floor and then sort of mass-sewing them together without cutting the threads or ironing until you finish a whole row. It takes a pinch of planning, as described below, but it really did save me bunch of time when assembling my Flying Geese Throw.

1. Determine Layout of Half Square Triangles
   
   
2. Flip Pairs of Squares Over, Along Seam Edge (organize into a pile for each column)
   
   
3. Sew Along Seam Edge, Not Breaking Thread In Between Pairs
   
   
4. Keep Sewing Pairs Together, Giving Enough Thread Between To Fold Over Later
   
   
5. Iron Pairs, Seams Open
   
   
6. Sew Each Pair to the Pair Below It, Matching Up Center Seams
   
   
7. Sew a Second Column of Quilt Pairs in Similar Fashion (steps 1-6), Iron Seams Open
   
   
8. Sew Columns Together Matching Up Seams, Iron Open
   
   

HST Flying Geese Quilt Throw Step-by-Step

1. Inspiration from namoo quilt
2. Materials for the Flying Geese Quilt
3. How to Make 8 HSTs at once and How to Make 2 HSTs at once
4. Assembling an HST quilt
5. Patchwork Back from the Modern Bear Paw Quilt
6. Quilt sandwiching instructions from the isosceles TARDIS quilt
7. Machine quilting with standard sewing machine tips from the isosceles TARDIS quilt
8. Continuous bias binding instructions from the isosceles TARDIS quilt
9. Quilt binding tips from the isosceles TARDIS quilt, but mostly CluckCluckSew
10. Alternative Mitered Edge Binding Finishing Tutorial
11. Flying Geese Throw Quilt Overview