triangles
08-03-2010, 05:24 AM
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First off, do you starch your fabric? You're working with the bias, so starching heavily helps tremendously. Are you making the triangles the easy way, by cutting 2 squares, sewing diagonally on both sides of the line, then cutting? That's my 2 suggestions.
08-03-2010, 07:32 AM
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Hi and welcome from the sunny state of Florida!!!
It sounds like you're not sewing your seem straight. It takes practice. I just make a square & sew on both sides of the line & cut, voila, you have 2 HST's in one.
It sounds like you're not sewing your seem straight. It takes practice. I just make a square & sew on both sides of the line & cut, voila, you have 2 HST's in one.
08-03-2010, 07:51 AM
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Thank you everyone. The concensus is to stitch before cutting, which I was not doing. I'll try that the next time. Plus for extra measure, I'll starch.
I realized I did not introduce myself. Top end of my youth at 60. I am a grammy to one 17 month old little boy, who is an only child of two only child(ren). They live just outside of Boston and we live in the Chicagoland area; so there are not a lot of visits.
I have always loved to sew and taught my daughter to sew. Poor kid growing up, mom made all of her dress/party clothes. But all of her friends envied the way it fit her torso. I digress...
I have many several baby quilts and have two more on the sketching board to construct between now and January. But I have to work on a big boy bed quilt first. I am very excited to be doing this quilt for him; lots of color and lots of trucks, cars and planes in the material. I am hoping this is going to be one that I photo and post.
DH has been encouraging about the quilting and the mess; but I'm sure he'd prefer it confined to 1 room not spread over the whole house. He has a hard time conceptualizing a block when I ask him to look at just the uncut material. But his eye is good when looking at the layout, helping with borders, quilting designs.
I realized I did not introduce myself. Top end of my youth at 60. I am a grammy to one 17 month old little boy, who is an only child of two only child(ren). They live just outside of Boston and we live in the Chicagoland area; so there are not a lot of visits.
I have always loved to sew and taught my daughter to sew. Poor kid growing up, mom made all of her dress/party clothes. But all of her friends envied the way it fit her torso. I digress...
I have many several baby quilts and have two more on the sketching board to construct between now and January. But I have to work on a big boy bed quilt first. I am very excited to be doing this quilt for him; lots of color and lots of trucks, cars and planes in the material. I am hoping this is going to be one that I photo and post.
DH has been encouraging about the quilting and the mess; but I'm sure he'd prefer it confined to 1 room not spread over the whole house. He has a hard time conceptualizing a block when I ask him to look at just the uncut material. But his eye is good when looking at the layout, helping with borders, quilting designs.
08-03-2010, 03:00 PM
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you have to plan a little bit to stitch your 1/2 square triangles, but if you cut 2-4" squares; place them right sides together, draw a diagnal line across the lightest one, stitch 1/4" on each side of the line, press flat to set the seams, cut on the line, press open;
when you trim you should have 2- 3 1/2" (1/2) square triangles...perfect & easy :)
when you trim you should have 2- 3 1/2" (1/2) square triangles...perfect & easy :)
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