Originally Posted by
Nammie to 7
I mark a diagonal line on one square, place it over another square and stitch 1/4" on each side of the line. The I cut on the drawn line to get two half square triangles. At that point it doesn't matter if the ruler nudges over a bit as your seams are already sewn. I don't care to work with sewing triangles together and I don't care to work with bias pieces. The nice thing is that each of us just needs to find the way that works best for us and do the piecing that way.
this is the way I make HST. I cut then apart with sissors on the marked line and then at the same time I cut off the dogears. also you can chain as you sew by simply aliigning up the marked line on at the presserfoot.
another way is to mark each 1/4" line on the diaginal and then sew on that line. there is a ruler for this.
Remember the basic rule or making HST is to take your finished block size and add 7/8" when cutting the squares.