2 Dark HST...so sad
 

So I was sewing with reckless abandon making half square triangles using up scraps. Now I have about 50 hst which is OK but when I made them, they are totally scrappy. Meaning two colors in each each block. Since brain was not engaged did not sew light to dark or white to color. No idea how to use these. Did a google search and didn't find a pic using similiar blocks. All those quilts have light to dark or white to color

Any suggestions how to tame down these blocks? Maybe I'll just make a dog quilt for Linda's new dog....

dogs don't care ;-) you can save them, and throw in the odd block now and then on some scrappy project, or maybe use them randomly spaced on the back of a quilt. Perhaps frame them in a lighter or darker color. all is not lost ;-)

Make them into a set of mug rugs and plate mats .

I saw a scrap quilt in a magazine lately done with HST. They were just as you have made. It looked good. Just throw them together and enjoy it.

just lay them out on your bed on a solid sheet or bed cover and put them together. Alternate light and dark and see what happens. I'm betting it'll be just fine.

Could you put a white or cream colored square next to each block and maybe make 9 patch blocks?

If all of them are dark, they will show as a square. You could make some 9 patch blocks using 5 of your HST and sew them with 4 light scrappy squares.

I think the dog quilt will win. Owner already has a quilt...lol

You are not required to sew lights to dark, many quilt blocks can use HSTs in various formats, mediums/darks/etc. Just lay them out in various ways and see what you can create.

Try using a white or cream square around each of the half square triangle blocks. Or sash the blocks with white or cream. I think that would look cute.

I wonder if they could be made into a nice scrappy border.

Just sew them together! Here is one I made using leftovers from a FQ pack with no regard to light or dark, and I love it![ATTACH=CONFIG]471418[/ATTACH]

Love it!!!

kaelyn makes a point. no wrong or right. live with your choices ;-)

Have a friend who makes dolls for charity and send doll quilts. Add pale blue or red for sashing and have girl or boy quilts. TU for the ideas guys.

When you lay them out they may noot look all dark. There re various shades of dark, it just depends on what is next to it . Just go with the flow and have fun with it.

Cut in half (across seam), then add half square triangle in light color (you will have light large and two small triangles all together in one block). Good luck

try sewing them into 9 or 12 or 16-patch squares and use solid sashing between

How about joining 4 or 9 together to form a square and then sashing that square with a solid? I think it would look lovely.

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Here' another example from Red Pepper quilts.

Jane

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and another one! by Heidi Pridemore.

Jane

place them next to a light block, like a same size simple square, and alter them. the light will break it up! no worries

That was my thought and then it adds in some lights to balance the darks. There are lots of quilts using this kind of block.

I agree with tessagin and YukonViv, lay them out and see what you have. If you have blue sewn to red, or brown to green, the HSTs will probably show enough. Even though they all seem to be darks, if it is truly scrappy there will likely be enough variation to make them show.

Use them to make up the Chickletts pattern.

I'd love to see a picture of the doll quilt you made of it.

If you have other squares made of lights and darks, then use them in the center of the quilt and use the dark/dark ones all around as a 'border". Or if you have more of the dark/dark blocks, use them as the center of the quilt and light/dark squares all around for the "border". You have alot of great suggestions here to choose from. Any of them would make a lovely quilt. have fun!

I had a similar situation. I found happy fabric and made squares the same size and appliqued them here & there, centering them over where the four corners meet (so it's centered over 4 corners) using multicolored thread in a satin stitch. It looked like it was planned that way. Happy save!

Look at my avatar picture. That quilt uses HSTs that are dk/dk combination. The whole block is just squares and HSTs. (Someone posted a picture of a totally scrappy quilt of this pattern lately. It is called Buggy Wheels. That person used squares where the dk/dk HSTs are in my quilt. It was striking!) The very center of my version is 4 dk. HSTs and at each corner of the "wheel" are also 4 dk. HSTs. You may have just accidentally started a very beautiful quilt.

all is not lost, just lay them next to each other and see how it looks. Everything will be fine.

Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts had a pattern using HST and as I recall, they were all on the dark side. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0981804098/...l_6fd8ayr4fl_b
Okay, I found her book and the HST quilt is on the front. Interesting layout.

Also found this one at Connecting Threads.
http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfS...+triangle+book

In either case, the placement is interesting and I think a scrappy would be great in either layout. Just choose the lighter side of each HST when you lay out your pieces.

Hope this helps.

I would alternate them with plain lighter colored blocks...

I agree ... make the nine-patch blocks, then make a Disappearing Nine Patch from them!

Have you checked the exploding star pattern?You use dark/dark, white /white and dark/white makes a beautiful quilt.

Exactly. Not to fret. Must use them
sandy