Originally Posted by
bearisgray
My suggestion is:
Take a piece of paper and draw your block on it.
Then cut it in half and draw the seam lines in.
Notice how that messes up the block.
Then cut that piece in half for a QST shape , draw the seam ines in, and see what happens to your block.
My recommendation: do not cut up your pieced blocks.
Great idea! You could just put them on your printer and print out a few of your blocks to play with. You'll also get a good feel for how large your triangles need to be.
When I did a quilt with the blocks on point, I used an online guide like the ones posted. I thought "that can't be right" so I laid out the blocks on my design wall and cut paper the recommended size. Sure enough, they weren't too big. I used that size an outside of a few operator errors, the quilt went together well.