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Colleen Johnson said:
April 29, 2014 at 7:14 am
I love your “wild geese”quilt in” best scrap quilts” but I’m curious as to why 2 3/8″ was used as the square .
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earlymorningquilter said:
April 29, 2014 at 9:22 am
Hi Colleen;
This is a good question. The rule of thumb for making HSTs with this method is to take the finished block size (1 1/2”) and add 7/8″. This allows for the diagonal seam allowance in the center of the HST block plus the usual outside seam allowance.
Thanks for asking, Ginia
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Early Morning Quilter 
I love your “wild geese”quilt in” best scrap quilts” but I’m curious as to why 2 3/8″ was used as the square .
Hi Colleen;
This is a good question. The rule of thumb for making HSTs with this method is to take the finished block size (1 1/2”) and add 7/8″. This allows for the diagonal seam allowance in the center of the HST block plus the usual outside seam allowance.
Thanks for asking,
Ginia