Half Square Triangle/Tips for more perfect
#11
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Texas
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OH thank you everyone for helping me!! If I could tackle this again, I probably wouldn't. Now I know to not use pre-cuts for this sort of thing and to starch more and square up using a 45" angle line. In future I will make my own squares cut a bit larger than i need. SO helpful! THANK YOU!
#12
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Location: Clay Springs AZ
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My best ruler addition is the Quilt In A Day triangle square up ruler. ONE cut to square up. It is great. It is fast and easy and everyone I have shown it to goes out and buys one.
I think Eleanor Burns has a demo on her web site.
I think Eleanor Burns has a demo on her web site.
#14
I have tried making them larger and cutting them down, but somehow I manage to screw that up too I'm going to try the starch method next time. Thanks for all the tips ladies! I'm also going to check out the Eleanor Burns ruler!
#15
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: California
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I just abandoned a quilt project that was all half-square triangles made from pre-cut 5" squares. I used the drawn line method and all was well until assembly took place and some points were off. Now if these were all the same size, is that supposed to happen? Is accuracy hard to achieve w/ these and if so, what do you do to maximize accuracy with those points? I read a little bit online and it seems many make them larger to start with and then later trim to size. Is that step i missed that would've yielded better results?
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#16
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Me too! I just add 1/4" to the size of the original squares. Also, one other trick a guild member told me is to just stitch a hair north of the stitch line (this really helps me with my HST's).
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