Give It a Whirl quilt
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So what is the difference if you sew all around your square and cut it on the diagonal. Either way you end up with bias. Sewing around the square is faster to me than drawing all those lines. Help me see the difference and the efficiency please.
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The outside edges remain on the outside and they are not bias.
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I did try this with two squares of paper but I do not see how you can even open the pieces up let alone end up with four hst. I know I have used a similar method in the not so recent past but it seems to me that the sewing part might be wrong. I feel like the diagonal sewing should be in the opposite direction. Maybe I need to get new glasses .... or better yet a new brain. I am off to my studio to try this with fabric. Maybe it will all make sense to me by doing that.
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Yes, it's simple. The diagonal of a 10" square is about 14" so the outside edges of the HSTs would be more than 6". BUT the reason I do not recommend this method for HSTs is because the resulting HSTs have bias edges along their outside edges, yuck!
Try cutting your basic squares at 10" -- or maybe even 10.5" -- draw a diagonal line in each direction and in half thru the middle both directions.
Sew 1/4" away from those two diagonal lines, on each side of them. Then cut on the drawn lines. Press and trim.
Jan in VA
Try cutting your basic squares at 10" -- or maybe even 10.5" -- draw a diagonal line in each direction and in half thru the middle both directions.
Sew 1/4" away from those two diagonal lines, on each side of them. Then cut on the drawn lines. Press and trim.
Jan in VA
To make a 6.5 finished HTS, you need squares at least 14 inches. Am I correct?
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