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I made this mini from scraps leftover from this top.
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I'm using some of my antique reproduction fabric. I love these fabrics.
I have a little trick I use whenever I make a block or piece that has corner triangles to trim away. These pics aren't great. I took them a while ago, but I hope you can see what I mean.
I am a big scrap saver and when I do this with the triangles they are ready to be sewn. It makes an instant Half Square Triangle. I don't have a bunch of triangles in my scraps that will likely never be used.
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Okay so for the blocks in the quilt layout above you sew squares onto the top and bottom corner of your bigger
square. What I do is mark my
diagonal line on the small square then I measure 1/2 inch away from it and mark another
diagonal line.
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Then when I sew, I sew on the
diagonal line and on the 2
nd smaller
diagonal line.
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I cut down the middle (1/4 inch away from each sewn line).
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Then you have a Half Square Triangle already to use as leader/
ender projects or whatever you like. I made the mini for a fun and quick little project. I just know that I won't use my triangle scraps if I don't do this. This works good for Flying Geese
too depending on the technique you use to make them.