Free Half Rectangle Triangles Quilt Pattern

We featured Karen Lewis’s Shine Bright quilt in issue 39 of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, and if you’ve been sewing this project you’ll find you have a whole batch of left-over units from the quilt’s Star Point units leftover. Turn them into an eye-catching mini quilt with Karen’s triangle quilt tutorial!

Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the magazine – you can still make this marvellous mini quilt. You just need a batch of Half Square Rectangle units that measure 4 x 2in. Read this how to guide and whip up a batch before you start making this project!

You will need…

• Print fabric: one hundred and sixty (160) leftover triangles
• Backing fabric: 23in x 30in
• Batting: 23in x 30in
• Binding fabric: ¼yd

Finished size

18in x 24in approx

Notes

• Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
• RST = right sides together.

Fabrics used

• Print fabrics are from the Blueberry Park collection by Karen Lewis and the Carkai collection by Carolyn Friedlander, both for Robert Kaufman.

Zoe Williams

Zoe launched Gathered.how as editor in 2019. A keen crafter, quilter and sewist, she has worked with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines – from Today’s Quilter to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. With over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt, she loves crafting with her kids and curling up on the sofa with a spot of hand patchwork. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Specialist skills include hand modelling for YouTube craft tutorials and fabric foraging (she has an inbuilt radar for local haberdasheries and community craft gatherings).

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