Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday.

Yesterday, I demonstrated how to sew the three shapes together from the Sidekick ruler from Jaybird Quilts. Today it’s time to use up a bit more of my stash and create some blocks with those pieces from yesterday.

Squares

I have never made a tumbling blocks quilt as I always thought that the 60 degree angles were too difficult and I didn’t want to do set in seams. Well, with the triangle and diamond shape the tumbling blocks can be made in strips – easy peasy.

To begin sew a diamond to a triangle. I decided to do mine in the lime green and magenta which by the way are complementary colours.

Sew diamond and triangle together

Then sew the two units together to create the square or tumbling block which is featured at the top of the page.

Use the half triangles to create a slightly different look to the square. Another great complementary colour combo of teal and orange.

Teal and orange square

Hexagons

Using the large triangle made up of two triangles and a diamond I came up with three layouts for a hexagon. Just by changing the position of the yellow diamond these three layouts emerged.

Using a triadic colour scheme of primary colours certainly makes a statement with these very bold fabrics.

Orbiting Satellite

To me the red and blue parts look like an orbiting satellite.

Orbiting satellite hexagon

Bordered Triangle

An inner triangle flanked by stripes of colour.

Triangle within the hexagon

Six Pointed Star

A six pointed star within the red and blue hexagon.

Star within the hexagon

I am sure there are many more blocks that can be created with these three shapes and these are just a few I came up with.

I’m working on a design using just the diamonds but I’ll leave that for another day to reveal and when I am a bit further along.

Okay, twist my rubber arm. Here’s a sneak peak.

A cool design with diamonds

Happy Quilting!