I love making HST and I know there are a lot of ways to make them, but if a block pattern calls for repeated ones like the example above, I love making the half square triangle with triangle rolls or printable sheets. Triangles on a roll, are rolls of ready printed template similar to the one you can print today but in a form of a continuous roll, which means you can make as many as you want without getting it off your machine. If you have never tried this method before, you might want to give it a try especially if you have to make lots of small HSTs.

You can get the ready printed template – the triangle rolls here if you wish to. I tend to be savvy whenever I can, so I normally would print off printable template on a 60gsm paper or any recycled paper.

So, for today, I am going to show you how to make 16  2.5″ HST the quick way using a printable template that you can download here :

Free Printable Half Square Triangles (HST) Templates and How to use them:

quilt block half square triangles free printable quilt half square triangles on blog thelittlemushroomcap.com

You can watch the following video for the tutorial, though I am still figuring out video recording – and was really frustrated with the quality of the video – but I will for surely try to improve from time to time. Bear with me.  I would just love to share so, here it is :


Now, you want to pin this image so you can come back to this post whenever you need to make HST!

How to sew Half Square triangles fast accurate and easily _ tutorial and free printable

Quilty hugs,

Amira


16 Comments on Quilting Tutorial: How to make lots of half square triangles quickly, easy and accurate

  1. Great job with your video tutorial. Thank you for the download. I just had to make a bunch of HSTs; using your template will definitely be faster.

  2. Great job with your video tutorial. Thank you for the download. I just had to make a bunch of HSTs; using your template will definitely be faster.

  3. Awesome! You made it look so easy … in fact, as soon as we are over the birthday month here (3 birthdays within 4 weeks of each other), I’m so going to try this!

    Thank you!

  4. Awesome! You made it look so easy … in fact, as soon as we are over the birthday month here (3 birthdays within 4 weeks of each other), I’m so going to try this!

    Thank you!

  5. Hi. How can I found the pattern for the block Half Square Triangle you show in this video. I want to know the meausrements of the pieces. Thanks.

    Elisa

  6. I could not get your pdf to download from the form? I instead had to screenshot and type the pdf address in. Just letting you know so you can fix it (and so you know why there were so many submissions of my name and email!). Thank you so much for the pdf, can’t wait to give it a go 🙂

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