Round Robin #2: Half-Square Triangles

Welcome to prompt #2 of 2025's Stay at Home Round Robin!  Today we look to Anja of Anja Quilts to tell us what to add, and she chose those incredibly versatile quilting units, the half-square triangle.

Half square triangles are great because there are so many ways you can use them.  Since I'm doing a sampler-style quilt with 12" blocks this time around, I chose blocks that primarily used half square triangles.  I started with a pinwheel block.  I saw this block online somewhere and liked it, a pinwheel inside a friendship star with accents along the edges.  This one uses 2 different sizes of half-square triangle.

For my second block, I wanted to design something myself.  I played around and got this.  It looks like something out of the original Avatar: the Last Airbender cartoon to me, like maybe what Katara gets when she's water-bending, or Ang when he's air-bending.  I don't know, but I like it, so into the quilt it goes!

So here's how my quilt looks so far, keeping in mind that the EQ rendering is not a prefect match for fabric.

If you are sewing along, the linky party is with Anja this week.  Important: if you are linking up, we need to be able to figure out who you are, including an email address.  If you aren't getting comments from your link from several of the hosts, especially from Gail the SAHRR Mastermind, something went wrong with your link and we can't contact you. We've had 2 or 3 link-ups that we can't identify or contact the linker.  If you think one of them may be you, contact Gail.  

 

I'm so excited to see what you do with Half Square Triangles this week!  Here is the complete Stay at Home Round Robin Schedule:

Here is the schedule for the Stay at Home Round Robin:

• January 13th: Center: Gail @ Quilting Gail
• January 20th: 1^st Round: King's Crown block or inspired by your first initial  Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27th: 2^nd Round: Half Square Triangles   Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3rd: 3rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail
• February 10th: 4^th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 17th:5^th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 24th: 6th Round: Me!
• March 24th: Finish Parade: Gail @ Quilting Gail