LEFT-HANDED QUILTING - HST - the Liz Katsuro Way - for LEFTIES

OK - here's the deal -

I told you yesterday that I found a HST Challenge on Liz Katsuro's site -
Liz Katsuro at Jelly Roll Fabrics - HERE -

Then I followed her HST Tutorial - tweaking it a bit -

And made a bunch and put them on the wall for Design Wall Monday this morning - ;))

I REALLY wanted to show you how I tweaked her Tutorial -

BUT - NOT WITHOUT HER PERMISSION - ;))

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO -

I emailed Liz to ask her permission -

Hi Liz -

I am A Left-Handed Quilter and had to tweak your HST tutorial a bit because of my left-handedness.

Do you mind if I show my tweaks on my blog? (alefthandedquilter - dot - blogspot - dot - com)

I absolutely do NOT want to infringe on your copyright for your technique or anything so I thought I would ask your permission before posting any "how-to" photos for the lefties out there in blogland.

Thanks,

Kitty

And she emailed me back -

Kitty, feel free!! :D Liz K.

To which I replied -

THANK YOU!! - ;))

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOO -

WITH HER PERMISSION -

Here are the tweaks I made to her tutorial - ;))

But first -

You need to know what I'm tweaking - ;))

If you go to her website - Jelly Roll Fabrics - HERE -

Sign up for her Free Jelly Roll Quilt Patterns and her Newsletter -
And she will email you news of SALES and FREE PATTERNS and FREE TUTORIALS - ;))

Here are some of her important links -

Half Square Triangle Challenge Quilt Blog - HERE -

2016 HST Challenge Week One - Spinner - HERE -

Which has important links to other stuff on her website -
Including the HST Tutorial - HERE -

The HST Tutorial is the one I'm tweaking -

You will need to read/download it to know what I'm talking about - ;))

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Note - these instructions are written in LEFTISH.
If you are right-handed - just reverse the directions.
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First of all -

My cutting mat is set with the 1" marks in the BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER -

The 45-degree line goes from the BOTTOM RIGHT to the TOP LEFT -
Which is OK if you are RIGHT-handed -
But it's BACKWARDS for a LEFTY - ;))

We need the 45-degree line to go from the BOTTOM LEFT to the TOP RIGHT -
So we can cut the diagonal from LEFT to RIGHT - ;))

So I went around to the other side of my cutting mat -
To see if I could do it from the other side -
And NOPE - same problem -
The diagonal still goes from the BOTTOM RIGHT to the TOP LEFT - ;))

So - back to square one -

And then I remembered my Quarter-Turn Trick - HERE - ;))

If I stand at the END of my cutting table -
And look at the mat -
The 1" marks are in the BOTTOM LEFT CORNER -

And the 45-degree line goes from the BOTTOM LEFT to the TOP RIGHT -
So we CAN cut the diagonal from LEFT to RIGHT -
PERFECT!! - ;))

So I sewed the strips according to her Instructions -
Notice I did NOT say Directions -
Instructions are NOT the same thing as Directions -
I did a post on that distinction a while back - HERE - ;))

Anyway - I lined up the "tube" the way she said -

And cut off the LEFT end - like so -

Flipped it like she says -
And cut the first HST - ;))

It came out OK -
But I must have done something wrong -
Because she only had one dog-ear to trim -
And - as you can see - I have two - ;))

I cut a couple more -
Then I got antsy and decided to fold the strip in half and cut two at a time - ;))

I worked my way to the fold on the RIGHT end of the strip -

Opened up that last one - pressed it -

And saw that it was a bit bigger than the rest -
So I used one of the other ones as a guide -
To trim off the extra bit from the LEFT edge - ;))

I managed to get 19 HST from my strips -

Which isn't bad considering that she eked out 20 from hers -

And one of my strips was shorter than the other to begin with -

And we only need 16 anyway - ;))

I don't know yet if I'm going to do the Challenge -

Since I'm not a big fan of units/blocks that have bias outside edges -

But it is an interesting technique -

And now you know how to do it LEFT-HANDED - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -