a scattering of half-rectangle triangle blocks

My latest quilt project was initially inspired by a vintage crazy quilt made by Elizabeth Lilian Neilson Mitchell, 1873-1948. Elizabeth lived in Melbourne, Australia at the turn of the 20th Century with her husband and eight children in a small two bedroom cottage. Her husband worked for a fabric manufacturer and would bring home small fabric samples for Elizabeth to stitch.
Her quilt has more recently been featured on the cover of  Making Australian Quilt by Annette Gero & Katie Some, a lovely book of Australian historic quilts.

I remembered too, seeing a version of this quilt when Jodi from talesofcloth posted her one back in 2015, see below pic, upper R)hand corner.
And, I had also downloaded 'sidewalkchalkquilt' pattern by Meghan from thencamejune sometime ago, so I decided to combine all these ideas.

I played with the measurements, and my half-rectangle triangle blocks ended up at 5.5" x 7", slightly different to both the sidewalkchalk pattern and Jodi's measurements. It was the first time I had made these HRT's, so I did a bit of research, and thanks to Susan from patchworknplay I found a video by Melanie from southerncharmquilts - excellent & easy to follow.
I also found another resource here @swimbikequilt well worth reading.

As I was deciding on fabrics, I worked on a rough ratio of 70% assorted peaches & cream, and the rest blues & black with a tiny bright hit of gold. And, like the vintage quilt I wanted the colours scattered randomly over the quilt. I opted for four rows of those HRT's and the other rows were a combo of ideas from Meghan's pattern.
I shall no doubt play with the orientation of the rectangles for a day or so, before I sew things all together. Here's a peek at how it's looking so far down on my 'design floor'  . . .

Linking up with Cyndy for 'oh scrap' here

Until next time, Linda