Release the Hounds (tooth)
 

I finished this top tonight and boy it made my eyes cross! The diagonal squares were tube pieced and cut on the 45 degree bias. I did the quilt math as I was falling asleep one night. My method was sound, my math was not, (oops!) so I ended up cutting a lot more squares than I originally intended. The overall top is 48"x72" (4'x6') with 4" squares. Thankfully I overbought fabric. I'm pleased with how this came out but I don't know that I'll do it again soon. There was a lot of ease in these seams for the points to match up. :p No worries about God squares, there are plenty! Thanks for looking!
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Beautiful!! A real eye-catching design. From a pattern, or your own?

Thanks, I saw a finished one somewhere (pinterest maybe?) and did the pattern on my own, which is where my math gave me fits.

Beautiful! And I can see why it made your eyes cross. But you managed to keep everything in order.

Great quilt!!

great job... i really like the design and colors

as i look at it more, i think the pattern would make a great border on another type of quilt, too.

Eye Catching and looks super, love it in red & white! I always think houndstooth as black/white or dark blue/white. I love patterns that appear to be tessellating designs (is that redundant? :-) )
Thanks for sharing

Awesome quilt!

Very striking colors.

Your quilt is awesome!

Wow! I'm lovin this. My daughters would love it too.

~SheriR

Red and white always a nice quilt

Wonderful work

Love it. but it makes my eyes go crazy.

did you design the pattern yourself or did you find the pattern somewhere? could you please let us know where we might get the pattern? thanks

Such a mesmerizing design. It is beautiful.

Does anyone else see Batman heads in this quilt? It's delightful!

If yo google "free hounds tooth quilt patterns" there are several sites that come up.

Wow, it's super!

I love your quilt, but if you go back and forth across it, it does make my eyes cross. Like ironing a striped dress.

Very nice quilt. I have never seen this pattern before. I really like it.

This would leave me cross-eyed!! You did a super job!!

You did a great job with this, and I'm impressed that you did your own math (that in itself would have had me moving on to another project!)

Fabulous quilt!

Tula Pink demonstrated this on a Sewing with Nancy show. I wrote down the sizes of the blocks and tried it. I agree with the crossing eyes. Your colors are great with this pattern

Very nice quilt.

I didn't google it, I should have. It's three blocks, a white solid, red solid and diagonal stripe. I tube pieced the diagonal with alternating red/whites. Jenny Beyer has a good tute for tube quilting at MoStar Quilt Co. Here's where my math was off. I wanted 6" squares and thought I'd use 2" strips and get 6" squares (2- 1/2=1 1/2 x4 strips=6)... or not when you cut on the bias. I still don't quite know how to figure that out to get a 6" square but I ended up with 4.5" squares so I had to cut down the solids and create quite a few more squares of both solids and stripes. I was going to do 8 blocks across and ended up with 12, the same with 12 down and ending up with 18 blocks. The blocks are actually pieced exactly the same and then one stripe is rotated 180 degrees over so the points match which made it easier. I chain pieced almost all of it.

Very striking! Beautiful quilt.

It certainly is eye catching, I think I would get cross-eyed. Wonderful design.

Grwat job, even if you had to adjust for math challenges...are you going to border it?

I bet you did a lot of double checking and worrying when you laid out the blocks and sewed them together! Nice job!

I like figuring out patterns and adjusting them for my needs too. I have a genius IQ, a college degree, I used to do my own accounting, and did taxes for several years. Why does quilt math reduce us to wimpering imbeciles?

Could be, but what I see is rows and rows of kitty cats. Great quilt, great job.

That is an intriguing design. It does challenge the eyes but sure looks difficult to me. Great job.

I can see how you could go cross eyed with this pattern. But it turned out really nice

Very nice!! You did a great job!

It looks like rockets waiting to take off.

This look great. You have done it well.

Beautiful job on the math and the quilt.