Originally Posted by Shelley
You need two kinds of triangles:
The corners are made using TWO squares, cut corner to corner. This puts the grainlines on the outside edges and the bias is attached to a grainline. This stabilizes the bias and keeps you from having a bias on the outside.
The other triangles are made from squares cut into 4 pieces, corner to corner. This puts the grainline on that outside edge, and your bias edges are attached to interior blocks that stabilize the bias.
Makes perfect sense and I completely agree with you. I just did a pattern that was the exact opposite. Corners were doublecut, sides were single cut. And the bias makes me sad. And is a pain to work with. I didn't know how to change it to get the right sizes so I figured I could deal with the bias long enough to put the border on.