Originally Posted by GailG
Originally Posted by Izy
Melissa...I know what you mean about HST...I think everyone can have a hard time with them...one thing about this is you do have some room for error....when you draw the diagonal seam allowances, if you take a smaller seam allowance at this stage, say 3/16th's, after you have made the HST you will have a little extra to square up...check out my pictures you will see that is what I have actually measured at is .5cm (my ruler is metric!!) :D
HST are all in the practicing. A few years ago I made a GD's graduation with nothing by HSTs. Can't remember the pattern, but it was in a magazine -- [perhaps a McCall quilting magazine]. It was a queen size. I got to be pretty good after a while. One of these glorious days, I'll run across the magazine -- I'm pretty sure I didn't get rid of it, since I rarely do that. :oops: I like Izy's method. Works fine for me.
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OMG :oops: As I sat here this afternoon re-reading some of the posts from last night, I could not believe the errors in my post! I apologize. Some of you are probably thinking "And she was a teacher??!!!" Sorry. It should have read: "I made a GD's graduation QUILT with nothing BUT HSTs." But I'm sure most of you had gotten the picture already. You probably read right through it. :lol:
Oh, and Bellaboo, that heart quilt is soooooo cool. My wheels are already turning thinking of things that could be placed in the corner blocks.