HST Fabric Pull

I just remembered that I never showed you the fabrics that I ended up with for the Modern HST Sampler quilt.

First the background fabrics. I have 24 low-volume (mostly text) black and white fat quarters that I have been wanting a scrappy sort of quilt to play with. As soon as I found this quilt along half square triangle idea I knew they would be perfect.

With the background in mind I knew I wanted good strong color that could stand against the busyness of the background. I pulled several different colors and chose three. Pinks, Oranges, and Teals. All of them go well with each other as well as the backgrounds.

Pinks 

Oranges 

Teals

I am loving all of them together. I keep looking at them and smiling.

Modern HST Sampler QAL

Alyce of Blossom Heart Quilts is planning a Modern Half-Square Triangle Sampler quilt along. It's somewhat a mystery quilt because we don't know the blocks beforehand. I think it'll be fun to use my stash of fat quarters and play along. I was looking through and seeing what colors I have. The only thing I decided on was the background. I have always wanted to use black/white low volume for a background. I thought this would be the perfect time to use it. So I have 10 fat quarters of text and other black/white/grey fabrics that I'll use as my background. Even the sashing I'll mix some low volumes together. So I know that I want near solids for the HST. I was thinking something along the lines of a warm color palette. But I have not pulled anything yet.