Garden Steps Blocks

The HST (Half Square Triangle) Garden Step blocks were quick and easy.  The pattern called for one block; I made two and will probably need three more, since this quilt needs to be four times larger than the pattern in my book, and I will be making matching pillows besides.  It was a simple matter to make two, in any case, since the pattern calls for me to cut squares rather than triangles for this block.

 

I took photos of the triangles and switched them to gray scale before sewing them together, so that I could get the color values in the order I wanted them -- light to dark, running cattycorner from bottom right to top left in one block, and top left to bottom right in the other.  My book showed a mixed scrappy look;

I prefer a rhyme and a reason.

 

(And yes, I realize that the pink triangle in the top right corner is a little lighter color value than some of those triangles closer to the bottom right corner; but it had to be there, because it was pink, and that's where another pink triangle had to go.)