HST question
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HST question
I have a pieced border with a pinwheel. The size of the pinwheel block (before sewing to adjacent blocks) is 2 1/2". The pattern says to cut 1 7/8 squares, and then cut the squares into triangles and sew the triangles together to make the pinwheel. I was wondering why they didn't say to make the half square triangle units using the two-square, diagonal line method. Wouldn't the result be the same? It seems to me the two-square method would be quicker and also avoid working with bias edges. Am I missing something?
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If I understood the original poster correctly,
the pattern said to cut the squares into triangles, and then sew the triangles together
instead of drawing the diagonal line on the squares and then sewing 1/4 inch on each side of the line an THEN cutting the squares apart to form the HST units.
You will get the same result, either way.
the pattern said to cut the squares into triangles, and then sew the triangles together
instead of drawing the diagonal line on the squares and then sewing 1/4 inch on each side of the line an THEN cutting the squares apart to form the HST units.
You will get the same result, either way.
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Seems like most patterns give that kind of instruction. Not sure why though -- Makes me glad that I took a class on how to rework a pattern to make it using the most "user friendly" instructions. There is never just one way of doing a block -- we need to do it the way that makes the most sense to us.
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