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Friendship Star quilt block

Yesterday, we explored 4 ways to use the leftover half-square triangles, and as I mentioned, there are many other combinations. This Friendship Star quilt block is my favorite, so I decided to make a large block using several overlapping Friendship Stars quilt blocks and called the quilt the Friendship Star…

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4 ways to use leftover half-square triangles

Yesterday it was interesting to see how to use the Bloc-Loc ruler to square-up the Flying Geese blocks and the half-square triangles. Today we’ll explore 4 ways to use the leftover half-square triangles that were created after trimming the Flying Geese blocks. The triangle units will be relatively small, so…

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How to use the Bloc-Loc ruler

Yesterday I showed you how to make a Flying Geese block, and in the process, create 2 half-square triangles. Now I’ll show you how to use the Bloc-Loc ruler which makes squaring up the block which makes it easy, precise and fast. Square-up the Flying Geese block so it measures…

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