Originally Posted by
Quiltaddiction
Hi there I am doing HST at the moment on a quilt for my nephew and have read and watched a few videos on them. One video was from Jenny at the Missouri Quilt Company and I though it was a pretty good idea. Make sure your suares are cut the same size and join them together WS facing. Take a 1/4 seam all the way around the outside of the block and then cut diagonally across them and you have two HST. Really easy method I thought. It is on youtube if you are a visual leaner like me. Just wish I had seen this video before I started cutting my out
Good luck.
this indeed is a quick way of making hst, but I think for a more advanced piecer because when you do them this way you are dealing with bias edges when joining them....But the "old fashioned" way of sewing the diagonal-either one on each side of line or one on each side of line...depending on the size of those squares as opposed to what size you want those hst........easier and "safer" for joining.....straight edged hst