Friendship Watercolor wall hanging

Last week I started a Friendship block quilt breaking up each unit into smaller pieces. There are 256 - 2 inch squares and half square triangle squares using roughly 40 different fabrics.

Other Friendship block layouts

You can use the Friendship block as the basis for a watercolor quit layout. I'm working on one using 256 - 2" squares and half square triangle units. Fusible grid interfacing will make layout and sewing easier plus once you get it laid out the way you want it, fuse the squares to interfacing and you won't have to worry about something or someone rearranging your them.

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 2 - Friendship

This week is the "Friendship" block, not to be confused with the "Friendship Star" block. You'll need 5 different fabrics including background and accent fabric if you're doing like me. The instructions for the half square triangle (HST) can be done either with squares or strips. To cut triangles from strips, you'll need a half square triangle ruler or a template.


A Friendship calculator is available for different sizes, number and methods of blocks for your own project.