HST Conquered - Easiest Way To Make Half Square Triangles

Well, this is the easiest way for me to make Half Square Triangles

since I am sewing them by hand.

I didn't realize how tedious it would be to make so many HST.

No drawing of cut lines like this...

Strips marked with cut and seam lines.

I will only be drawing 1/4 seam line on four sides.

Yay!

I didn't want to mess around with dealing with math

so I laid out 4 HST that I had cut from the earlier pattern
and measured... which made about a 5 1/2" square.

So, I cut out a 5 1/2" test square and made some HST.

And the half square triangles came out to be 3 1/2".
Yay!
Well, close enough for me.
I am not going to quibble about 1/16".
I'm not a perfectionist quilter and I don't count threads either.

My first 5 1/2" square made with quilt material.

One light, one dark, right sides together.

After sewing 1/4" around the four sides I cut the square on the diagonal.

Wow!

How easy is that!!! 

I am not an exact quilter so if my blocks come out within 1/2"

of the finished size

then I'm happy and the quilt goes together

and the fabric does a little adjusting and everything still looks great.

I think I have enough of the light material to use as sashing

around the blocks.

I'm aiming for 12 finished blocks.

Then I can start adding sashing around the blocks.

Well, back to sewing.

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Update:

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Finished quilt.

Finished Broken Dishes Quilt

P.S.

Morgan is fine... she is sleeping.

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