Originally Posted by
Melanie Rudy
When you are cutting striped HSTs from squares:
1. Lay your squares out with the stripes all facing the same way.
2. Cut each square in half on the diagonal from top left to bottom right.
This must always be done on the same angle to have the stripes the same in all HSTs.
Excellent advice. It doesn't work for double directionals, but works well with geometric patterns. Upside down fish are not a good look. We have a lot of "scraps" from that quilt.