Wild Bird Half-Square Triangle Throw

This is another easy quilt, with only 2 different squares to make. A fussy-cut square block and half-square triangle block. I made mine with squares of birds, and surrounded those with a star like set of half-square triangles. The instructions for those are at the bottom.

I used green as my second fabric around my squares, and then different blues for every row of the second set of half-square triangles. You can see the colors in the image. 

Feature Fabric (birds here): 4½" squares (finishes 4" squares)
Colored Half-Square triangles: 4½" (finishes 4" squares)
  Green:          ½ yd. at 44”
  Blues:           ¼ yd. at 44” each
  4 other colors: ¼ yd. at 44” each
Border:             ½ yd. at 44”
Backing:         1¾ yd. x 1¾ yd. (2¼ - 2½ yds)

Here's how you make it:

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  Cut out your feature square and 'test' colors.

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  Here you can see 2 sets of different color half-square triangles.

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  Half-square triangles begin as two 10 blocks, with a cross and a square drawn on one.

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  Sew blocks into rows. Iron.

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  And then sew the rows together. Ironing all the way!

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  I tested out border fabrics

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  Cut border it into 2½" strips

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  Sew on the border, make the sandwich and quilt the top

Making half-square triangles:

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  Two blocks with right sides together, draw a centered cross, and then angled lines

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  Sew ¼" from both sides of the angled lines, then cut along the lines 

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  Along the cross lines too, to make 8 half-square triangles.