I was snowed in today and wanted to take advantage of the day off to work on my triangles, but my triangle paper has not arrived yet. I tried the free HST papers you can print from quiltingandwhatnot.ca, and found them to be accurate, for my computer and my printer. You have to remember to select "no scaling." I tested mine all the way through the process, including taking the paper off some, pressing and measuring them opened up to make sure they will end up the right size for whoever gets them.

I had no labels in the house. I did not want to write my name and state on each triangle - I have way too much carpal tunnel for that.
I drafted a Word document with columns of my screen name and state, repeated in columns, in a small font.
I printed the HST papers. Then I ran them through the printer again and reprinted them - this time with the Word document with my name and state in columns. It worked fine.
I hope this helps someone else.

Judy in Virginia

Judy

This is making me giddy with excitement and I'm telling everyone I know, even non-quilters about this. there is no way they will catch the excitement until we produce the finished product. Our guild's show is on October, so I will have to finish mine for that.

You are your own Po-Po (Police). We are using the paper for it's accuracy sooooo - slow down GUUURRRL! They aren't due til April 1. I know when you sew so much the lines get fuzzy and the quality get fuzzy too. :shock:

I'm excited to get my HST from around the world

Hi Everyone!
Putting a self-adhesive address label ("free" from charities) on each paper triangle is an easy solution to fast labeling every triangle. Most of them will fit nicely along the long side of the triangle. They even have a pretty/cute/environmental icon to the left of my address to make them more interesting for scanning onto fabric. Just a thot...
Happy quilting,
Shirley, Gresham, Oregon, USA

ajclapp wrote: Wow that's a lot of work. One quick thing I saw. If you are sending them in for this group. It is not a batik only exchange. We are doing batiks, prints, tone on tone and handdyed. You will get back a mixture. Wow 930 triangles. Are you dreaming triangles yet? Clara

I used the same Avery software and printed my screen name and both states where we divide our time---N.H. for summers and Florida for the winters. I'm planning to make at least 12 sheets or maybe more----
Mona80

I hope there aren't any quilt police in the group. I have 2 more hours of sewing to do then will be ready for cutting. All of those dashed lines are making me dizzy. So how close to the line do the stitches have to be? If they're hugging the line sometimes is that good enough? There's no way to do that much sewing and keep them exactly on the line at all times, not as fast as I like to sew anyway. I was getting too many pin pricks on the machine I started with so switched to a machine with more space to the right of the needle. At one point it was sewing when I wanted it to stop and stopping when I wanted it to sew. It straightened out though and maybe I will be able to finish the rest of them with no problems. Since each of my sheets makes 30 I will keep 2 from each that are the least perfect. I'm making 930 triangles, but will only be sending 616 for this exchange. Some of them are for the batik only exchange and I will donate some to the Queensland Flood Victims. I will send those in a separate package so they won't have to be separated.

I used the blank return address mailing labels, size 1/2" x 1 3/4", made by Avery. Microsoft Word has all of Avery's templates already in their software. I printed my screen name, town, state and country and stuck them onto the HST papers before sewing....they fit perfectly.

MadisonMtn
Diane

Okay, for those of you (us?) who are ambitious, if you do 22 of the 28 HST papers from Edyta, that's 616 HSTs.
I'm using the Triangulations which have 12 per page. I would need 3 x 17 of these pages to make 612 HST's.

Not trying to encourage anyone to go for it, just providing information!

Kathy

crocus999 wrote: Be careful. Quality of inks and whether they transfer to other papers or fabric. Proceed with extreme caution. I thought about that too, but thought labels would be better and safer. Clara

mimuscraft wrote:
That was the only problem I had as well. Not sure how that will work as the triangles are not coming back until April.

I sent someone a message, but intended it for everyone, so here goes again.

A suggestion re: labeling the HST's: I just moved a while ago, so I'm thinking of getting a self-inking stamp and stamping the back of all the papers. I think you can get them pretty cheap at Staples or some such store. Put as little or as much info on them as you like. These are also great for stamping into books and other stuff you lend out, or many other things, including return addresses on all your snail mail!

My papers came in the mail today! I can't wait to get started on the triangles. I just need to go through my stash and decide what batiks to use.

RiverOwl wrote:
That would be great, but the logistics of doing it are nearly impossible! Do you want to mail your siggy to 516 people around the world???
Someone has suggested scanning the names from the triangle papers and printing it on fabric to use either on the back or as part of the front of the quilt. Maybe that would work for you? You probably won't get names on all of the papers, but there should be lots!