The Guild had a demonstration on a new technique for making half-square triangles (HSTs). I wasn’t able to attend the demo and when I tried it out on my own I couldn’t “get it”. In the meantime I had a number of squares cut for HSTs so I stitched them up the traditional way.

I chose a pattern from the book Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle (Jeni Baker) but one day I was reading a blog I follow (maryquilts.com) and she had a setting for HSTs that I liked better. I more or less combined the two patterns into something of my own.

This project was both my April and May UFO Challenge and once I decided on the setting it went together quite quickly.

I did some straight-line quilting along with some stitch-in-the-ditch. I’ve always wanted to try quilting e’s and l’s and intended to do that for this quilt. I started out with the e’s and found my mind didn’t switch easily to the l’s so it ended up being only e’s.

I debated whether the quilt was good enough to donate as a Community Quilt but I have decided that’s where it will go.