Originally Posted by Mumzbear
My daughter bought a new template for making perfect half square triangles at a quilt show last week.
HALF SQUARE TRIANGLE TEMPLATES: Introducing a new template technique for cutting faster, more accurate half square triangles.
I watched the tutorial at
http://templatetechniques.com
I was very impressed as I always have a problem keeping them from stretching. I would like opinions from other quilters as to what they think of this method.
I am not able to down this tute BUT I just saw a Tute on another quilt board and all they did was take two squares the size you want to work with. Place them right sides together and sew around all side, thats right all four sides.
Then put you ruler corner to corner and cut, very careful not to move the pieces , cut from the other side corner to corner , in other words a criss cross cut. Viola !
you have 4- 1/2 square triangles . I did a quick tute on this today at my line dance class and everyone was very suprised and happy to know how to do it. Our teacher is a beginning quilter . I think it is the easiest way I have ever made them.
MNM