Originally Posted by
mea12
OH thank you everyone for helping me!! If I could tackle this again, I probably wouldn't. Now I know to not use pre-cuts for this sort of thing and to starch more and square up using a 45" angle line. In future I will make my own squares cut a bit larger than i need. SO helpful! THANK YOU!
There are many, many ways to make hst and qst. I have Triangulations software which is the bomb. You print out what size you need, put the pattern on top of your two fabrics which are face to face. Sew on the lines. Perfect hst. There's also Sewlingo?? - don't know if that name is right, and there are some hst you can get from the computer - just google. I am in the middle of making an Ocean Waves that requires 3,000 2" hst - yes 3,000. I bet I have more made. We had a charm square swap so I tried the 5" charm squares folded in half, & half again, sewed on the lines, sewed in half again and again, and cut on these lines. I got 8 hst this way. I like scrappy quilts so I decided that I would use no more than 6 of the same color combo in my hst, so the triangulations papers got cut up to smaller sizes. It still made 12, so I put 6 in one box to use in OW and 6 in another box to swap at some time or use in another quilt. We also did a hst swap that I got some goodies from. The wondercut ruler was the only ruler I've used that did not work well for me. I'm sure it was user error, but I look at the quilt I made with those hst and I grit my teeth - it's my screen saver no less. I love hst. Just play around and enjoy.