Free Half Rectangle Triangles Quilt Pattern

Use up castaway units from other quilt projects and turn a batch of colourful fabric triangles into a bright and cheerful mini quilt! Read on to learn how...

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Zoe Williams

Published: August 9, 2019 at 7:23 pm

We featured Karen Lewis's Shine Bright quilt in issue 39 of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, and if you've been sewing this project you'll find you have a whole batch of left-over units from the quilt's Star Point units leftover. Turn them into an eye-catching mini quilt with Karen's triangle quilt tutorial!

Don't worry if you haven't seen the magazine – you can still make this marvellous mini quilt. You just need a batch of Half Square Rectangle units that measure 4 x 2in. Read this how to guide and whip up a batch before you start making this project!

You will need...

Print fabric: one hundred and sixty (160) leftover triangles
Backing fabric: 23in x 30in
Batting: 23in x 30in
Binding fabric: ¼yd

Finished size

18in x 24in approx

Notes

Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
RST = right sides together.

Fabrics used

Print fabrics are from the Blueberry Park collection by Karen Lewis and the Carkai collection by Carolyn Friedlander, both for Robert Kaufman.

Half Rectangle Triangles Quilt Pattern

Making the blocks

Step 1

Take two right-hand coloured triangles trimmed from step 10 of the quilt instructions and place them RST, matching up the diagonal edge – the triangle underneath will have an overhang of ¼in at one end and the triangle on top will have an overhang of ¼in at the opposite end. Join on the diagonal edge with a ¼in seam.

Step 2

Open out and press. Trim to 4in x 2in making sure the diagonal runs from corner to corner.

How to sew a triangles quilt step 2

Step 3

Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the remaining right-hand triangles and the left-hand triangles from step 11 of the quilt instructions to give you eighty units in total – you will have forty with the diagonal running in one direction and forty with the diagonal running in the opposite direction.

Completing your mini quilt

Step 1

Arrange the units into five rows of sixteen units each. Join them into rows and then join the rows to complete the quilt top, which should measure 18in x 24½in.

Step 2

Repeat steps 29–31 of the quilt instructions to quilt and finish the mini quilt. Karen quilted this mini with vertical lines approx ³⁄₈in apart.

Step 3

From the binding fabric, cut three (3) 2½in x WOF strips. Repeat steps 32–33 of the quilt instructions to bind the mini quilt.

Launch Editor, Gathered.how

Zoe launched Gathered.how as editor in 2019. A keen crafter, quilter and sewist, she has worked with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines – from Today’s Quilter to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. With over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt, she loves crafting with her kids and curling up on the sofa with a spot of hand patchwork. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Specialist skills include hand modelling for YouTube craft tutorials and fabric foraging (she has an inbuilt radar for local haberdasheries and community craft gatherings).