T-Shirt Sample Half Square Triangles

I recently came across some salesman samples of t-shirt fabrics, which amounted to a bundle of very colorful small rectangles of knits backed with interfacings. At first I was thinking that I would just pass them on to Fidget to play with, because did I really want to sew a quilt with t-shirt knit? But the more I looked at those samples, I realized I really loved the colors all thrown together - the different values, shades, and little pops of bright colors.

And I also remembered this - one of my favorite pictures, a late 1960's Jason Crum mural (from a vintage visual teaching aid). I love the half square triangles; the colors, the patterns made by the lines and different values.

 

 

Lucky for me I just bought a die cutter, and in less than an hour I had run all the rectangles through to become half square triangles. I pieced the HST's somewhat randomly, the only criteria was that the two halves could not be from the same color family, and one half had to be a lighter value. And so, with help of my lovely assistant...

 

 

 

Here is my Jason Crum inspired t-shirt sample half square triangle quilt top!

 



 

 



To be honest, I needed a project that would just go together fast and be finished - know what I mean? So yes, the piecing is a little wonky - some of the corners do not line up perfectly, but that doesn't bother me in the least. I still love it!

I plan on quilting it as simply as possible, turning it into a wall-hanging, hopefully to hang somewhere in the house!