Preventing side triangles stretching
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heavy starching works fine, but you still have to handle the block carefully. i've never tried stay-stitching, but, oddly enough, i was thinking about that very thing this morning.
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As others have said, you might also try cutting your triangles so the long edge is on the grain instead of the bias.
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I have the worse time with working with bias. My flying geese are the worst. I never thought about using starch. Duh! And I'm glad someone said to starch it BEFORE you cut it. Maybe I'll finish my quilt that had lots of flying geese.
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I use the method that starts with a rectangle (no bias) and you sew down a square on the diagonal (no bias). Then you trim the excess and press the triangle back.
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