Originally Posted by
cashs_mom
I'm doing a quilt now that uses half square rectangles. I struggled with them for a bit until one woman in my quilting bee said "I'd paper piece them". Snap! I made a paper piecing pattern and just used the fold the stitch method then trimmed. Super easy. I made 6 of them in no time at all.
Wow! That's how my cousin makes HST's. It sounded like a pain in the tush to me! She's an excellent quilter with perfect seams and points. I'm more on the looser side. I just try to find patterns that don't have many HST's.
I think I will ask her to show me how to do it.
bkay