I made this bed runner for my parents! It’s from the On Point pattern from Bluprint/Midnight Quilt Show. It’s another HST type of design, but with a twist. I used the Boundless Batiks Fireside jelly roll to bring in some autumnal/southwestern colors. I sewed pairs of strips together down the long end to create 20 strip pairs, which were then sewn to my background fabric. Now here’s the magical and efficient part: the strip pairs and background fabric is now a tube, right sides in. I used a square ruler to cut out triangles from the fabric, lining up the 5.5″ marks with the sew line. Then you iron them open and it’s a HST!

The pattern calls for matching the strips to create triangles inside of triangles, but my mom liked the mismatched strip layout, which I think brings a lot of movement and visual interest to the quilt. I assembled all my HSTs and paired them together to make the mismatched rectangular units. Then I laid them out on my new design wall (a piece of Polywall from Home Depot covered in an old flannel sheet) so that no fabric was touching the same fabric in any direction.

I wanted to quilt it in a way that minimized the harsh geometry, and since I’d had previous success with wavy lines, I decided to go for it. I chose a tan-ish thread to quilt with that ended up having a bit of sheen to it which makes it look almost gold.

Project completed July 16, 2019.