One of the most frustrating things about making and designing quilts is figuring out what size to make them. There are no standard sizes and everyone has their own opinion on how large to make… Read More »Guide to Common Quilt Sizes
Last week I showed you how to make 8 half square triangles all at once, but we still need to talk about how to figure out what size square to start with to get the… Read More »Half Square Triangles (8 at a Time) Math
Last week we talked about how to make half square triangle (HST) blocks one or two at a time. But how do you know what size square you need to cut? Figuring out how much… Read More »Half Square Triangle (Two at a Time) Math
I didn’t realize when I started quilting just how much math is involved! I didn’t exactly doubt my math teaches in school when they said we’d need this stuff later in life, but I expected… Read More »Finding the Center of a Circle with a Quilting Ruler