DAY 4-TRIANGLE PAPER
I really cannot stress how important the paper is when you make a lot of HSTs or if you are making very small HSTs. Our papers are really, really nice….the cutting lines are very fine and accurate, so if you stitch, and cut accurately, your triangles will be accurate!
Here are a couple of quick videos on each step in how to use Primitive Gatherings Triangle Papers…
They come in sheets for an unlimited amount of triangles or we have them configured for charms squares as well…The sizes run from 1/2″ to 2 1/2″, for the sheets…and 1/2 to 1 1/2″ for the charms squares.
Sewing the starched two fabrics right sides together…paper on top of the light…shorten the stitch length to half of what you normally stitch at. I move to 1 on my Juki. Stitch all the dashed lines.
Trim on all the solid lines….make sure you have a nice small ruler…
Flip them to all the dark triangles are facing up…press them using lots of steam….Do not remove the paper yet…
Now is the time to remove the paper, the paper helps stabilize the triangle. Now, hold the triangle near the stitching with your non-dominant hand. Push the paper triangle back with your dominant hand and pull it away from down near the stitching in the center of the paper triangle…
I hope this helps you with your HST’s. Please don’t avoid quilts with HSTs…they are so fun!
Today for our Needful Things we are offering 25% off on ALL Triangle Papers. If you are unsure of what size you want, we do have variety packs with a bunch of sizes in each..also see the chart I have made for converting a pattern to what size triangle paper you will need.
Click Here to go to Day 4 of Needful Things
Click HERE to go to my page where you can print the HSTs chart. Scroll down to the bottom. This chart is always in my Pages if you need a quick video or to reprint the chart.
Today we are giving away three sets of all the Triangle Papers to 3 lucky winners! Please leave a comment and let me know if you have used our Triangle Papers and anything else you want to say, and if you have not used them yet, do you purposely avoid Triangle quilts…do you use something else…do you trim ALL those HSTs after making them..twice the work?? Let’s hear it all…
Do you have your list ready for this week? Let get it done! So we can have fun!
all for now…Lisa
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