Triangle quilt patterns
Table of Contents
- 1 16 Half Square Triangle Quilt Patterns
- 2 Designing with triangles
- 3 HST layouts
- 4 Ombre – modern triangle quilt pattern
- 5 Broken dishes baby quilt
- 6 Picnic time
- 7 World piece
- 8 Vintage Market quilt pattern
- 9 Luminous Quilt pattern
- 10 All is bright triangle quilt pattern
- 11 Blown away by Free Spirit fabrics
- 12 Bloom bloom pow
- 13 Color explosion quilt
- 14 Triangle star quilt block
- 15 HST around the world quilt
16 Half Square Triangle Quilt Patterns
Here’s a pattern that demonstrates how simplicity can turn extremely creative as it shows you how to use basic half-square triangles to make sixteen different quilts, with designs like diagonal stripes, various types of diamond shapes, chevron stripes, various kinds of arrows, swirls, and many more.
written tutorial: Createwithclaudia
Designing with triangles
Two-in-one patterns are great, three-in-one is amazing, but here’s a six-in-one that shows you how to make a quilt with hexagon balls that are made up of six triangles, a quilt with hexagon flowers, a quilt with a large triangle star, a quilt with a row of colorful diamonds, a slightly abstract quilt with many colorful triangles fusing into a vibrant haze, and a quilt with triangular foxes and raccoons.
HST layouts
You can make twenty different quilts with just this pattern and two charm packs, featuring designs like diamonds, stripes, arrows, windmills, rippling squares, hourglasses, various variations of grids with half-square triangles in contrasting colors, and a couple more that will remain a secret until you download the pattern.
Ombre – modern triangle quilt pattern
This lovely quilt has a special charm to it with its vibe that’s on the border of cheerful and serious, featuring a creative look with six rows of elongated upward and downward-pointing triangles in all kinds of colors bordered by a thin frame on the edges of the colorful quilt.
by Seekatesew
Strip Tube Quilt
Take a break from the usual square grids on your quilts with this pattern that shows you how to make a quilt with a 5 x 12 grid of triangles that have contrasting interiors and exteriors, point upward, have long bottom edges, and sit on a pure white base with a thin red outer border.
Broken dishes baby quilt
Play with the eyes of anyone who sees this quilt that has an 8 x 6 grid of half-square triangles in blue and white colors, with the occasional red and white block that form larger broken dishes blocks and fool the eyes into thinking there are also pinwheel blocks on the quilt.
Picnic time
Finished size: 59.5″ x 77.5″
Here’s a quilt with a 4 x 3 grid of interesting blocks that have white backgrounds with colored triangles in the corners and a matching thick square frame in the middle, surrounded by a single square on each of the four sides that gives the frame a look that combines a cross shape and a shape of a square with a hole in its center.
World piece
finished size: 25.5″ x 25.5″
Enjoy the playful dance of the colors on this quilt that features a creative design with a diamond frame made of vibrant triangles in the middle, surrounded by seven pinwheel blocks in different colors, and four diagonally oriented hourglass blocks around the pinwheels, set on a pastel background and bordered by a thin frame on the quilt edges.
Little Robin Quilt Pattern
Finished size: 40.5″ x 40.5″
Four blocks are more than enough if they’re as interesting as the ones on this quilt, with white backgrounds, colored triangles in the corners, and a matching plus mark that has white triangle arrows pointing towards the center from each of the four ends of the plus shape.
Vintage Market quilt pattern
Finished size: 70 x 70”
The numerous half-square triangles on this quilt create an intriguing and inventive design with their clever arrangement and subtle blending with each other, oriented differently in each quarter of the quilt so they join into colorful diamond-shaped frames rippling around a single solid diamond in the center of the quilt.
Luminous Quilt pattern
FINISHED SIZE | 78″ × 90″
Beautiful gradient of colors is the main boasting feature on this quilt that has a plethora of hourglass blocks that alternate in orientations between vertical and horizontal and change colors from left to right in a triangular shape from blue, to yellow, to pink, to orange, to green, to dark blue, to baby blue, and to the final silver.
All is bright triangle quilt pattern
FINISHED SIZE | 82″ × 96″
Bring festive emotions into your home even when it’s not the holiday season, with the help of this marvelous quilt that has a big triangular Christmas tree in three tiers made up of half-square triangles in similar purple colors, decorated with a few subtle columns of diamonds on the background behind the tree.
Blown away by Free Spirit fabrics
Finished Quilt Size: 119” x 85” (302 cm x 216cm)
Enjoy the artistic psychedelic impressions this quilt gives off with its flamboyant design that features numerous triangles spread out to look like they were randomly spilled across the quilt surface, changing colors in a gradient from the top-left corner to the bottom-right one, starting with purple that goes into green and ends in white.
by Drive.google
Bloom bloom pow
This is not a downloadable pattern, but you can follow the quilt along and the designing/cutting instructions on the blog
There aren’t many things more relaxing than a field full of fluffy flowers, and this quilt brings the charm of such a field into your home with its gorgeous large colorful flower shapes that have six slightly twisted petals and are placed on a pure white background with minimal distance between the flowers.
Color explosion quilt
Here’s a quilt that demonstrates the beauty of colors through a creative representation of an explosion, with polygonal arrows that point towards the central line of the quilt from the top and the bottom, as well as the sides in the middle of the quilt, changing in gradient colors of the rainbow from the top to the bottom
Triangle star quilt block
The beautiful block you can make with this pattern will fit into almost any quilt thanks to its lovely design with a six-tip star made of two overlapping triangles and a hexagon made of six small triangles inside it, placed on a bright base made of subtle small triangles in alternating orientations.
HST around the world quilt
Make your home even more wholesome with this quilt that has a colorful broken dishes block in the center and many rippling diamond frames around it that alternate between colors that match the central block and a combination of white and beige colors, bordered by a triple frame in two colors around the edges of the quilt.
Salt Air Lattice Quilt
Lap sized quilt
Bring a bit of tropical vibes indoors with a quilt that uses pastel green, red, and yellow colors for the broken dishes blocks that have thin white frames around them, a contrasting thin frame around the grid, and a creative border out of floral fabric on the top and bottom of the quilt.
These dazzling patterns show you how triangles can be even more fun than those boring old squares that are so common in quilting. Which of these quilts and blocks are you going to make first? Feel free to share your impressions in the comments and subscribe to the mailing list for fresh updates. Enjoy playing with triangles!