Originally Posted by Afton
I'm sorry but I'm a self taught newbie, but what does squaring up mean?
After you've pieced a block (like half-square triangle or four-patch, for example), it's possible that it is slightly too big, depending on your piecing. Squaring up trims a pieced block to the size it's supposed to be for the next step.
It can be evil - right now, I'm typing without my left index finger because I just ran the rotary cutter into it squaring up some flying geese :-(.