Where I left off with the Ocean Wave quilt

The last time I posted about my Ocean Wave quilt, was on Aug 11/2025 called Sometimes I like the pieces small..., in relation to my new set up for moving forward with trimming all the HST (half square triangles).  As I was writing about it, I realized that I hadn't posted about this quilt.  I posted on April 9/2016 called Examples of Ocean Wave Quilt, where I talked about this pattern being on my bucket list with several examples from different sources, but nothing about my own version.

These HST blocks finish at 1" square.  I pulled up Bonnie Hunter's version from her blog under the free patterns tab for some guidance.  Mine will be very much like hers, except the background colour.  This first photo is to show you just how small these HSTs are!!  I have to make something like a gazillion more of these four patch units......lol!

Some of the progress already made are these two pieces below.  Essentially this quilt consists of two types of blocks.....or so I thought....until I tried to make a large block section.  That is when I realized that there are in fact three types of blocks.  The piece with the background square in the middle is correct and gets rotated depending on where it is.  The second block you see below however, is one rotation.  There is a second rotation where the centre pinwheel spins in the opposite direction followed by the outer HSTs spinning in that same direction.  So needless to say, I couldn't assemble the large block.....and.....that is about the time that I ended up putting this quilt aside....

This quilt is now back out and I am working on it as my leader/ender between other projects, plus trimming what I already have.  I drafted up a diagram of the quilt on EQ to get a gauge of the colour I wanted to use for the background, however the colour is quite off.  Regardless, I look at this diagram and know that I will like the dark background.  Note that the white strip in the border is where the HSTs will go.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.  Take care and don't forget to take some time for yourself!