you can also purchase paper on the roll to help, or get a cd which allows you to print out a full page templates for making various sizes of HSTs. I use the "printout" cd since it allows me to print out as many pages as I need and gives me a full range of sizes to pick from. Brenda Henning does the cd that I use. In this kind, you cut two rectangles of fabric about 8.5 x 11 inches, lay them right sides together then stitch in one continuous seam over the whole page on the line indicated. Cut on the cutting line and you get a bunch of HSTs of the same two fabrics.