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If you are joining in during the Little Miss Sawtooth quilt along, you’ll see me use this HST method over and over again in my video tutorials. I do love a good HST, don’t you? You can find the Quilt in a Day Half Square Triangle ruler available here for sale. I hope you found this post and video tutorial helpful.
Spray HST with starch, and press again. Press to set the seams on each HST, then press seams open. Using the Quilt in a Day HST ruler, trim each unit to the unfinished size needed. Cut the square in half by cutting directly on the drawn line. Sew 1/4″ from both sides of the drawn line. Place squares on top of each other right sides together. Draw a diagonal line on one of the squares. Cut two squares with your starting size as mentioned above. You can try to save yourself some time by doing the steps in batches and by chain piecing, but don’t skip on the ritual. I do the ritual step by step and that’s that. They can be quite the little you-know-what! For that reason, I don’t get ahead of myself, I don’t rush and cut corners. This is serious business! In my opinion, taking the time and getting this right will save me so many headaches as my quilt progresses. I can be quite the school marm about my HSTs. So as you can see, I’ve got some hard rules set here. It is your bestest friend when making patchwork. And for goodness sake, use your starch. Vulnerable to ALL THE THINGS! I like to call them the precious little babies, because that’s how you are going to have to treat them if you want them to act right and stay in place and stay not-janky. There are lots of lovely methods and you should find the one that you like the best.Īnytime you cut a fabric into a triangle, you’ve made it stretchy, you’ve made it vulnerable. Let me just get this out of the way and tell you that obviously my method is NOT the only method. The Next Quilt Along starts this September! If you are very lost here and think you might need a more detailed lesson about seam allowance, here’s a class that might help. Unfinished means we haven’t sewn them together yet, they are a unit or a block. You get it!įinished means it’s sewn all up into a quilt. If I need a 2.5″ unfinished HST, that means I need to start with 3″ squares. 
This method of making HSTs makes 2 of them at a time.īack to the math… If I need an unfinished 6.5″ HST, that means I need to start with 7″ squares.
5″ to that and your starting square size is 5″.
If I’m trimming this guy to 4.5″, I can’t start with that size, I need seam allowance again. This means my unfinished HST needs to be 4.5″ Decide what size your HST should be finished. Let’s go over some quick “you should know” things first. We’ve got a lot to cover today, so I’m diving in and getting to it quickly. If there is a mistake in my quilt block, if it doesn’t measure up correctly, if something is a bit off, you can bet your fannie it isn’t because of my HSTs! It came with instructions! Then I kept doing it and doing in and doing it and finally I can say that I have no issues with my HSTs. But if I’m being honest even after I realized you could make two at a time and not cut the squares in a half I still STRUGGLED HARD. I cut a whole bunch of squares, I cut the squares in half and then sewed the two halves together (insert face palm). What a disaster! It was one of those chevron quilts, you remember when they were popular, don’t you? If not, there was a day when chevron was the thing. I wish I had my first half square triangle quilt to show you. #QUILT IN A DAY RULERS HOW TO#
Today I’m showing you how to use the Quilt in a Day half square triangle ruler.
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Today’s post is part of a series of video tutorials showing you how to use some of my favorite rulers.
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