I think Ricky said he learnt it from a quilter in UK when he showed us how to do it.
Anne

PosyP wrote:

I know this block has been around for a long time but I was just trying to put in context of here at TQS. These blocks are very similar. .

My thanks ,too, Margo !!

Margo wrote:
Margo, This link is great. I got stuck there for a while. I have a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt in que to quilt and the video on using a faced binding on hexies is great. Wow!

Great quilt Nancy, and I love the fact of how you made the border from the off cuts, it works great.

I made a quilt a couple of years ago using Shooting Star blocks, which are like snowball blocks except that you only do the two opposite corners and make the corner triangles bigger. I used the sew-and-flip method and used the half-square triangles from the "waste" to make a pinwheel border. It's the first quilt on my profile, called "Salad Shooter". I hope to write up a pattern some day.

Nancy

Here is a great way to use both sides of a square to make HSTs: http://www.online-quilting.com/video-tutorials/index.html

PosyP wrote:
I've done a lot of this. Just can't seem to find time to write instructions for the patterns. Maybe someday.

Yes extravagant is probably a better word. I meant to say, and now that I am down off my soap box I will, that it is admirable that you are making these quilts for charity Nonnie. Any chance of some photos?

I guess the right word to have used was extravagant rather than wasteful. Marilyn is right about sewing the second seam on the flip & sew to give you hst's. I just wonder that designers never seem to put this idea in and come up with a border using them.

It's just another tool in the tool belt, Heather...I learned to sew those cut bias edges accurately
but I am better and faster with flip and sew....BTW...make a second seam when you sew them =s no waste
tri.s, just half square tri.s to save for a scrappy project ! Another use ! Ala Quiltville !

I suppose a better word than waste would just be in that it requires so much more fabric to do it that way. I'm merely thinking of the cost here....needing 2x as much for those middle triangle pieces/getting half the triangles from the same piece as if I did it by cutting/piecing, so there goes my fabric budget. But, I'm new at this, so no huge stash to pull from, and fabric is crazy expensive here.

You are all right; it does wind up in the quilt, and it's beautiful, I certainly didn't mean it was wasteful of those who do use this method. Just that my own pocketbook can't quite take that!

I learned this method a long time ago...and have used it several times !!...Fast results. I guess "waste" is
is up to the individual, but I don't see any here..all in the quilt. And I learned to use Crumbs to"make" fabric
in the very early days (70s) I love the look of scrapes ! That's were my Twister bits end up. So it's all in the
choices you make.... all can be used!