QUILTING BASICS - Making a perfect Half Square Triangle Block

Happy Friday everyone. When I started quilting I could not believe how challenging it was making Half Square Triangles (HST). There are so many little things that can affect the outcome of your block. And it's so important to make a square HST so that when you sew them together, your quilt lies flat. So here are my top tips for making your perfect half square triangle

The tape on the ruler was the most helpful for me. I could not figure out my new ruler for the life of me 😂. Thank you so much for this helpful video! Love the visuals.

That is Great!

Hi Karen, It’s lovely to watch your videos. You give me energy to get sewing. Thank you.

Thanks for the great tips. The painters tape ledges are an excellent idea. I will definitely try those!

I'm a new quilter, I took my first quilting class and my least favorite thing to do was HSTs. Then, I bought my first pattern (without reading the instructions), but the pattern was rated for a beginner, Then, I bought ALL the recommended fabric. Finally, I got around to reading the pattern instructions and I learned this quilt is almost ENTIRELY HSTs. Holy Cow ! I better go back and watch a couple more of your HST videos before I begin. Thanks for such clear instruction on your videos.

Thank you for your help 😊

What ruler did you use for this video?

Thank you for sharing your great tips - I think I can do this now :)

I just used your method for trimming my hst's. Worked great. I thought about all 256 3" squares I needed to trim. Figured a better way for myself: I took a square I had trimmed and folded it back to a triangle, layed my little square ruler on the triangle piece, lining it up to the cut edges, looking where the stitch line was. took a bright pink fine line marker and marked that stitch line. I then took an unpressed, uncut hst and lined up the stich line to my pink line and cut away the 2 edges, opened it up and it's perfect. only 2 cuts instead of 4.

Thank you! Very helpful! I’m learning how to do a basket block with HSTs.

I'm working on a pinwheel quilt. I just go all my blocks done but I've stopped for the past week because I was terrified to trip. OMG THAT MASKING TAPE HACK JUST BLEW MY MIND!! Thanks for the help!!

Half it like this

Gréât vidéo!!!! Im struggling with hst’s!!!!

Love your videos! I made some half square triangles and they came out great. However, when I piece with the other parts of the quilt- it doesn’t work out. The tips of the triangle are seen into the seams. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you!

I should have watched this sooner! I made found this after I messed up a block exactly like to demo examples you showed at the start. Thank you for the help!

I just found this video. Excellent explanation.

Thank you so much for your videos! I'm just starting out, it's all changed so much since I watched my mom ages ago. I'm so excited to learn it all!

Thank you so much, your explanations are Great.

Love the way you marked the ruler to square the half square triangles and then used your ruler to be able to square any size under 6 1/2 inches.

I find it helpful to push down on my rotary cutter as well as forward.