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The Dilemma

In a nutshell, it has become increasingly common to see patterns that simply cut a block in half to create a setting triangle. Personally, I have come across this three times in the last couple of weeks. The first was when I made the Nyalik quilt. The corners really bother me because the corner blocks were just cut off when squaring up the quilt. 

In hindsight, it would have looked better to use solid squares and not have those random pieces on the corners. However, it is quilted and bound so it’s going to stay the way ...

Quilters use this triangle cutting chart when piecing a diagonal layout quilt. In a diagonal layout, blocks are placed on-point. The blocks are shown in white above. The corner triangles, shown in black, are in the corners. Side triangles, shown in gray, are along the edges.  

Cutting Triangles from Squares

This triangle cutting chart is based on cutting squares then sub-cutting the squares into triangles. 

Cut the square twice diagonally for side triangles.

Cut the square once diagonally for corner triangles

Why Cut Triangles from Squares?

Squares are easy to cut. First, cut along ...