{"id":118,"date":"2012-01-22T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2012-01-22T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T22:07:18","slug":"step-3-making-half-qsts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/twisted-table-runner\/step-3-making-half-qsts","title":{"rendered":"Step 3: Making Half QSTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to make some half QSTs (half quarter square) units. If you&#8217;re a new quilter these may seem a little bit intimidating but don&#8217;t stress them. Just pay attention to what you&#8217;re doing and you will be fine &#8212; honestly. If you&#8217;re an expirienced quilter these will be old hat and you&#8217;ll be done them in no time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Watch that you don&#8217;t get your colors mixed up as you&#8217;re sewing (like I did *le sigh*) and you can get through this without having to use your un-sewer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>4. Cut your 2 color #2 4 1\/4&#8243; squares in half diagonally &#8212; then cut them in half again so that you have 8 triangles (also called quarter squares for obvious reasons). Do the same with 2 4 1\/4&#8243; squares of your background material. Sew one triangle of color #2 and one triangle of your background fabric together like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bg-2hqst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" title=\"bg-2hqst\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bg-2hqst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Repeat 7 times until you have 8 units like above.<\/p>\n<p>5. Take two 4&#8243; squares of color #1 and cut them in half diagonally. Sew one of the triangles to the above unit like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/qhst-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105\" title=\"qhst-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/qhst-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Repeat so that you have 4 of these blocks. We&#8217;ll call these blocks HQST #1 (it&#8217;s a tedious label, I know.). I suggest labelling them or at least making a note somewhere &#8212; you&#8217;ll be happy you did later.<\/p>\n<p>6.Take two 4&#8243; squares of color #3 and cut them in half diagonally. Sew one of the resulting triangles to the unit from step 4 like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hqst-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99\" title=\"hqst-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hqst-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>Repeat so that you have 4 of these blocks. We&#8217;ll cal lthese blocks HQST #2. I suggest labelling them or making a note somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to make some half QSTs (half quarter square) units. If you&#8217;re a new quilter these may seem a little &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/twisted-table-runner\/step-3-making-half-qsts\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":80,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}