Waste Not - Want Not
06-16-2011, 07:30 AM
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I am making a new quilt that uses the technique where you use squares or rectangles of fabric, sew diagonally across and then cut off the corner triangles...well I HATE wasting fabric so I came up with an idea to salvage the corners to use in another project. I hope this is helpful to someone and not something that's been around forever that I didnt' know about! Since I'm making 104 of these units, I will end up with 104 half square tiangles for another project! Maybe matching pillows for the quilt. I will have even more extra units when I piece the green and cream blocks....Yeah...I hate wasting fabric!
The pictures are a little dark because I'm sewing on my hand-crank Singer machine. We were without electricity after the storm hit Norman, OK Tuesday evening! I read until I finished my book and then pulled out the project that I had cut out a year or so ago and decided to sew!
The pictures are a little dark because I'm sewing on my hand-crank Singer machine. We were without electricity after the storm hit Norman, OK Tuesday evening! I read until I finished my book and then pulled out the project that I had cut out a year or so ago and decided to sew!
Sewing across the diagonal
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Sewing 1/2 away from first stitching line
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Or..you can mark and sewing rather than use the ruler
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Cut between the two stitching lines
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Now I have my piece for the quilt plus a half square triangle unit for a new project. No waste!
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06-16-2011, 07:45 AM
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Thank you 'sew' much for posting this!!!!!
I am starting a project with the corner cut off, and this will make it so much easier in the end. i was going to keep them, but dreaded using them for a future project. this will make it easy!
I am starting a project with the corner cut off, and this will make it so much easier in the end. i was going to keep them, but dreaded using them for a future project. this will make it easy!
06-16-2011, 07:47 AM
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Great idea! Never would have thought of the ruler either! Just think of the crumb blocks these could used in. I have a ton of odd width strips I've been sewing together & cutting into 4 patches;need some HSTs...gee, the ideas you get from this board!!
06-16-2011, 07:51 AM
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This method is Bonnie Hunter's way! She's been teaching this for years. She's the queen of scraps.
She calls them Bonus Triangles.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/...triangles.html
She calls them Bonus Triangles.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/...triangles.html
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