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Posted by nzlstar* on January 30, 2008, 11:14 pm
yup and here is a pix of it in use.
http://www.quiltersrule.com/images/products/rulers/qr-wc.jpg
cut straight, get bias edges on the HSTs.
cut bias, get straight edges on the HSTs.
i prefer to cut straight, sew on the bias and finish with straight edge HSTs.
fwiw,
j.
"Anne Rogers" wrote...
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>> I *hate* doing HSTs and was wondering if this ruler is worth the $$ and if
>> there's a way to perhaps "cheat" with a regular triangle ruler. I've got
>> oodles of HSTs to make and don't want to have to wait for it to ship to me
>> ... it's *not* that I want to capitalize on someone else's invention!!
> before you buy it, make sure you know that if you want to use strips cut from
> WOF, your resulting squares will have bias edges, as if you sewed two QSTs
> together on the long side. The way round this is to cut bias strips, which
> tends to mean you need more fabric, plus you are sewing bias to bias which you
> need to be ultra careful about. Strips from WOF would leave too much bias for
> me to even try it and I really wouldn't want to be cutting bias strips all the
> time!
> Anne
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>> there's a way to perhaps "cheat" with a regular triangle ruler. I've got
>> oodles of HSTs to make and don't want to have to wait for it to ship to me
>> ... it's *not* that I want to capitalize on someone else's invention!!
> before you buy it, make sure you know that if you want to use strips cut from
> WOF, your resulting squares will have bias edges, as if you sewed two QSTs
> together on the long side. The way round this is to cut bias strips, which
> tends to mean you need more fabric, plus you are sewing bias to bias which you
> need to be ultra careful about. Strips from WOF would leave too much bias for
> me to even try it and I really wouldn't want to be cutting bias strips all the
> time!
> Anne