they always look fresh. Look at the many different designs you see here! This week s goal 252 Half Square Triangles!

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1 they always look fresh. Look at the many different designs you see here! This week s goal 252 Half Square Triangles! 2018 Bonnie K Hunter. All Rights Reserved. How do you like THESE colors, folks? Much of the inspiration for our Good Fortune Mystery happened by looking UP, not down. Units will measure 2 1/2 unfinished and finish at 2 in the quilt. There are any number of different ways to do half-square triangles and you are welcome to use whatever method you choose. I m going to present just a couple of my favorites! Ceiling beams from the courtyard at the Temple of Heaven. The Essential Triangle Tool method! How about that Millennium Y2K fabric? Yeeeehaww! (in it goes!) A feast for the quilter s eye! If you ve never used my ruler before, there are videos to help you under the videos tab at the top of the blog at Quiltville.blogspot.com. You can watch again and again. From what I remember, the temples are routinely re-painted painstakingly by hand, so 1

2 Place a blue 2 1/2 strip and a neutral 2 1/2 strip with right sides together. Square off one end as shown. Cutting down the strip set. Making the first cut. To build your variety, work from short strip sets without too many repeats of the same thing. Cut 252 matched pairs ready to sew. Move the clean-cut edge you just trimmed to the far left. The ruler is marked in FINISHED UNIT SIZE. Place the 2 finished red line at the top of the strip set, ON the fabric, not above the fabric on the mat. The green triangle will be pointed toward you. Make the first cut as shown. Chain sew pairs through the machine. Sew a few, press and measure. They should be 2 1/2. Double check cutting and adjust your seam allowance if need be. Press seams toward the blue triangles and remove dog ears. Pivot the ruler so the green triangle is up. Make second cut. Yes! 2

3 The Simple Folded Corners method using 10 squares! This method will give you 20 matching 2 1/2'' half square triangle units that will finish at 2'', and 2 smaller "bonus" from ends of strip sets that will measure 2'' unfinished and finish at 1 1/2 wherever you would like to use them. Using EITHER ruler - Place either the Simple Folded Corners Mini or the full-sized Simple Folded Corners ruler with the 3 1/2 line at the side of the fabric squares. If using the mini, the 3 1/2 is the EDGE of the ruler. Cut off upper corner. Save corner. Place a blue and a neutral 10 square with right sides together. Cut 2 strips all the way up the pair of squares. (You can do it sideways too!) 3

4 Place the 2 finished line along the seam line on the tube. Make a cut, and then pivot the ruler to make a cut from the upper edge. I find that I need to leave room for the turn of the cloth so the 2 line is just ABOVE the seam line for me, into the triangle, not into the seam allowance. It allows the fabric to turn up and over the thread for greater accuracy. You will end up with at least one corner that is a bit too small that s okay! Cutting with the Mini is the same! Place the 2 line just into the triangle above the seam. The bottom of the line should touch the top of the seam. Sew the pairs of bias strips along BOTH long sides of each strip set with 1/4'' seam. Opening the triangles. There will be a few stitches into the upper tip of each triangle pair. These easily lift apart, no seam ripper needed. Press seams toward the blue. Measure. Cutting HST s from the tubes! 4

5 I love how the Essential Triangle Tool and the Simple Folded Corners rulers work hand in hand with each other. Let s recap: You are making 252 blue & neutral half-square triangle units. Units will measure 2 1/2 and finish at 2 in the quilt. Press seams toward the blue fabric. REMOVE ALL DOG EARS!! Perfection! Now remove those dog ears. I love that I can use the increments to measure and cut strips, squares & rectangles as well as triangles! If you are a compulsive sliver trimmer and I know there are some lurking amongst us, there is no need to go BIGGER to sliver trim down. If you want to use Essential Triangle Tool method, but you MUST trim everything to be happy, try this! Deck the halls, Make Merry, Be Happy and Get Stitching! This mystery is given for personal use only. No part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying for sharing, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author. Please no uploading and saving of this file with intent to share, or distribute, either digitally or in hard copy. NOT FOR RESALE. Please send your friends to my blog to print their clues. Thank you! 2018 Bonnie K Hunter. All Rights Reserved. Sew your triangle pairs just a hair scant. And use the Simple Folded Corners ruler to trim before pressing!! Place the 2 finished line just above the seam line (can you see it in the photo?!) and trim two sides and then press. Only a hair had to come off of this one. 5