I was making HST's for a quilt and thought the method showing was not what I wanted; I could just cut corner to corner. Well I found out that to do like the pattern really was the best way; it is shown in the "Road to California" pattern in quilter's cache; cut the length given, then stitch as shown in that pattern.
Far be it from me to know what is different about the cutting corner-corner and the method shown, but the latter works much the best. All I could figure out was that there is a fraction of an inch lost cutting corner-corner. So now I won't be improving on some method shown in the pattern!!! Mariah.