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Old 09-12-2016, 06:42 AM
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I find myself visually challenged by all those lines. What I have done in the past is simply place a piece of blue painter's tape on the bed of the machine running in front of the needle, then used a ruler and Sharpie to mark a straight line from the needle to the front of the machine. When sewing squares for HSTs, I would simply look at keeping the corner points on that line.
Me too!! Easy to use, removes easily if needed, doesn't cover the bobbin.
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Old 09-12-2016, 07:32 AM
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Sounds like tape is the way to go for me. Thanks for all the input.
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Old 09-12-2016, 07:38 AM
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I've got the angler 2 you can have, I just pulled it yesterday as a "go" item pm me your address
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Old 09-12-2016, 11:05 AM
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My method came from a quilt class. Get a narrow piece of lined paper, 1" x 11", sew on line in the center of strip for a few inches. Then tape down both sides of the narrow strip to your machine/cabinet. Remove what is at the feed dogs and start sewing. Then all you do is keep the point you hold, on the line until you have sewn the block.
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Old 09-12-2016, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Prism99 View Post
I find myself visually challenged by all those lines. What I have done in the past is simply place a piece of blue painter's tape on the bed of the machine running in front of the needle, then used a ruler and Sharpie to mark a straight line from the needle to the front of the machine. When sewing squares for HSTs, I would simply look at keeping the corner points on that line.
It's been so long since I used this, I forgot some important information. If you plan to get *2* HSTs of equal size from the squares, you need to mark 2 additional lines on the tape - one on each side of that center line, spaced a scant 1/4" from the middle line. This is because the middle line is your cutting line; you keep the point of the square aligned with one of the two additional lines so at the end you have 2 sewn lines and cut between them.

The single line works if you plan on getting only 1 HST from each pair of squares, but you end up with 2 smaller cut triangles as waste.

Hope this was more clear than mud!
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Old 09-13-2016, 11:13 AM
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Angler 2 went in the mail today, enjoy!
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