Testing, testing...

My guild's challenge for the Fredericksburg, VA, SewExpo this year to make a 36 x 36 quilt, using half-square triangles.  It's due at the September meeting, so I may as well get started on it, eh?

About two years ago my friend Pat made a basket quilt from a pattern in an old Fons and Porter magazine that I thought was just gorgeous, including the red, yellow and black-and-white colors scheme.  I don't have access to the pattern and I don't think Pat remembers which magazine it was in, but I took a photo of her quilt and I've been able to figure out the measurements for a 6-inch block.

Sometimes it's fun to redraft a quilt block by looking at a picture, you can move the lines around if you don't like the original pattern, and do all kinds of stuff! 

This one wasn't hard to redraft; I knew I didn't want to make a triangle at the bottom of the basket, so I converted that area to HST's and a rectangle unit.

My rulers - the Deb Tucker Trimmer I for the HST's, and my Simple Folded Corners ruler for the rectangle unit. 

Easy peasy!

The finished test block looks great, I think it'll be a winner for the 36 x 36 HST challenge!

I have a lot of different red and yellow fabrics, I'll stick with just one per block.

I can always do a straight set with 25 blocks, but I'd really like to set these pretty baskets on point.  I haven't figured out how many I need without having a humongous border, though.

Have a great Monday, we're moving towards the middle of this very short month.  Sew forth and sew on.