denise-nh wrote:
Well today I was looking through some emails and found one that caught my eye. It was from the Applewood BOM, although I'm not doing that one, I was reading how their coming along. One poster said how there were many different ways to do 1/2 square triangles so that caught my eye. She did them a bit different (for me). She took 2 squares (2 1/2 inches) for us one print and one background - same size for both. Right sides together and sews a 1/4 in seam around the edges of the blocks. Then she cuts them in half diagonally (making an x) and poof, she has four 1/2 square triangles done and no paper to remove!
Of course I saw this at work and was so intrigued I had to try it with paper, staples and tape and it pretty much worked. So I came home, used my rotary cutter and some scraps - and it worked great.
Both squares have to be 2.5 inches, and you have to do a 1/4 inch seam around the perimeter of the square on all 4 sides, cut in an X and your done!
Give it a try.
denise
Denise, what you created were quarter-square triangles, not half-square triangles. The bias is on the outside edges, as several people have pointed out. They're used in different situations than half-square triangles, which never have bias edges.
Anne in Vancouver, Canada
Gloria 
