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Originally Posted by Prism99 (Post 7649686)

I find myself visually challenged by all those lines. What I have done in the past is simply place a piece of blue painter's tape on the bed of the machine running in front of the needle, then used a ruler and Sharpie to mark a straight line from the needle to the front of the machine. When sewing squares for HSTs, I would simply look at keeping the corner points on that line.

Me too!! Easy to use, removes easily if needed, doesn't cover the bobbin.

Sounds like tape is the way to go for me. Thanks for all the input.

I've got the angler 2 you can have, I just pulled it yesterday as a "go" item :) pm me your address

My method came from a quilt class. Get a narrow piece of lined paper, 1" x 11", sew on line in the center of strip for a few inches. Then tape down both sides of the narrow strip to your machine/cabinet. Remove what is at the feed dogs and start sewing. Then all you do is keep the point you hold, on the line until you have sewn the block.

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Originally Posted by Prism99 (Post 7649686)

It's been so long since I used this, I forgot some important information. If you plan to get *2* HSTs of equal size from the squares, you need to mark 2 additional lines on the tape - one on each side of that center line, spaced a scant 1/4" from the middle line. This is because the middle line is your cutting line; you keep the point of the square aligned with one of the two additional lines so at the end you have 2 sewn lines and cut between them.

The single line works if you plan on getting only 1 HST from each pair of squares, but you end up with 2 smaller cut triangles as waste.

Hope this was more clear than mud!

Angler 2 went in the mail today, enjoy!