Beginner Quilt Using Fat Quarters

This stashbuster uses the two at a time HST method. It’s fast, easy fat quarter friendly,free with no wastage.It’s a stashbuster pattern created by Karen Brown.

The easiest quilt patterns are made from squares and rectangles. Half square triangles can give you all sorts of beautiful results, depending how you lay it out. And we going to show you how to lay them out in a traditional carpenter star. This pattern comes in a small, medium, and large version. In this tutorial, we will be making the medium version.

So we’re looking for three distinct values, in the lightest, you will need eight fat quarters,

or two yards. In the darkest, you will need four fat quarters, or one yard. And in the medium tone, you’ll also need four fat quarters, or one yard.

When you’re shopping from your stash, line up your fabrics, then order them by value, and take a black and white photo. This will help us identify which fabrics are the darks, the mids, and the light values, as well as any that are in the wrong spot.

Once you have your dark medium length fabrics, we are wanting to make four sets of light, mid, and dark. Additionally, we need four extra lights. You need to see if there’s enough contrast between your groups. And we like to do that by folding them into approximate shape and size of the final blocks. And remove anything that’s not distinct enough or any patterns that you feel are not working. Because this fat quarter bundle did not have enough darks or mids all in one colour.

So far have you liked the clear instructions? Then watch the full tutorial below or Download the Pattern!