Iceblossom

It is indeed half-rectangle time!

https://quiltville.com/pdf/LupineLaughterPart_FOUR.pdf

It is good to be back home but it was a lovely 70 degrees in Phoenix when I left, and snowing heavily when I arrived in Peoria. And worse is yet to come -- sub-zero next week.

WMUTeach

I just read through the directions or Part 4. Bonnie's illustrations are white/purple but her sewn examples are dark blue and white. Should I assume the correct color is the dark blue choices? I won't be doing this until after the holidays and off course I am saving the directions each Friday.

Stitches23

I'm excited to be using the new ruler and learning something new. I have not done these before, but before this clue is over, my skill level should improve. LOL. If you have the Creative Grids ruler that Bonnie is using, there is place on the ruler to trim the dog ears and have the unit line up more readily before sewing. If you are interested, You Tube has several videos on this.

Iceblossom

@WMUTeach Go with the drawing on page 1 of the PDF and not so much the examples. Further down when she gets to cutting direction on Page 3 of the PDF she does say Neutral and Purple.

Again, is going to be weird for me... Black and gray, baby!

joe'smom

WMUTeach, that second paint card was quite blue and the graphic is definitely purple, so I don't think there's any doubt that these are meant to be purple.

I've taken a quick look through and see that Bonnie is eliminating the first step of using the ruler! It made placement for sewing the halves together quite easy; I can't picture how easy it will be to do it as she shows. How interesting. That was a very tedious and time-consuming step in the process.

I'll be using the paper piecing templates, because that will involve much less bending over a ruler, which my back can't take a lot of. I was wishing these would combine the purple with the blue. I wonder how much it would mess things up if I cut them in purple and blue rather than purple and neutral (which in my case is gray and in terms of value, undistinguishable from my blues).

Snooze2978

Thanks, just went to download the instructions.

toverly

Heads UP! Paper piecers, measure your prints. I had to print at 103% on my printer to get it to come out the correct size. Mine printed, a tad too small.

joe'smom

Thanks for the heads up, toverly! Haven't tried it yet.

petthefabric

half square rectangles! Rarely see this unit. However, just last year made a quilt with this unit as the main ingredient.
What worked for me:
1. Cut fabric into strips the longer unfinished measurement.
2. using the triangle unit from the tri-recs cut right angle triangles. The skinny points are trimmed at this time.
3. Align units skinny end to wide end
4. Careful not to stretch. Stitch 1/4" or scant 1/4" depending on the needs for your machine and thread weight. Sew one at a time, measure and adjust seam width for the next one. When the necessary seam width is determined, sew the rest.
5. Check measurements. I needed to trim, a minimal amount of the units.

Gemm

Like WMU, I'm saving this as a possible future project idea, and just because Bonnie has a great way of explaining how to put units together - nice to have as a resource. :-) Also wanted to say thanks to those who are offering up your wisdom with tips, tricks and hints. So helpful for other projects, too!