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Old 05-18-2013, 08:15 AM
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leoniet
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Default Hand piecing half square triangles

Hello everyone!

I'm about to embark on my second ever quilting project! (first - you can see in my avatar - was a hand-sewn twin-sized that I pieced using cardboard templates - as shown to me by my mother in law).

So I'm now looking for my next project to hand piece half square triangles. I have found this blog - http://whynotsew.blogspot.com/2012/0...g-block-1.html - which seems to be quite helpful but does anyone else have any other tips and hints? I'd like to do a simple pinwheeel design like the one show on the attached picture.

My immediate thought (as a dressmaker and not a quilter) is whether or not a backstitch might be more effective than a running stitch? Is that just not the way it is done?

Thank you so much!
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