How do you make your half square triangles? I've always been a two at a time gal myself. That is until I started looking at how many of these little bundles of trouble are planned into my Mandala Quilt. So I decided to go on the hunt for a different answer. The answer I discovered is to do 8 at a time and it goes like this.
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| Sew like this |
Yes, just four lines of stitches, which is easily chained to make the 64 HSTs I needed of this color combination.
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| Cut apart on White Lines |
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| Press open and trim |
To make these the size you need, take the block size you want - in my case 2" finished, 2.5" unfinished. Multiply your unfinished number by two and add 1 for the seam allowance. (2.5 x 2) +1 = 6. Don't they look great? I love this new blue fabric I picked up for a song at my local quilt shop. I nearly bought the entire bolt I was so charmed by it.
Hope all your projects are coming along well!
4 comments:
Love it! Genius!
The blue is gorgeous, I can see why you thought of buying the whole bolt.
There is also a tutorial out there to do a fat quarter's worth at a time, but I can't find it right now. At the time I did it I was making a border with HSTs ( never finished) and found the tute and used it. I agree with QuiltSue that the fabric is amazing.
Smart move, now this is a time saver. Love that blue fabric.
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