Thangles
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
Thangles make good hst. Like all other methods it depends how many you need, what color ways will you need, scrappy, controlled, etc. I also like triangles on a roll...another paper guided way to make hst. It's great that there are so many options to do things.....
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: North country Wisc.
Posts: 328
I like them but found that the product I like better is "Sew Easy Triangles" because they have a freezer paper back on them. You just stack your 2 fabrics & press the triangle paper on the top. It stays until you're done. I ran into them while on the Wisconsin State Shop Hop. Great idea, I thought. Wish I'd had it 1st.
#16
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ridgecrest, CA
Posts: 227
I use spray baste to hold my Thangles in place and only a couple of pins to hold the two fabrics together. I love Thangles when I have to make standard size HSTs - any others, I use the two-square method.
#17
I like Thangles, but I think I prefer Triangle Paper. I just went to their website and they have some videos: http://www.thangles.com/video.html
#18
Power Poster
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 12,861
It has been years since I used them but they were sure handy when I needed a ton of little half square triangles ( my least favorite unit to make- especially little ones) I used a nice, new, sharp, fine needle and shortened stitch length. Made fast, accurate blocks.
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: South Central Indiana
Posts: 1,931
I used Thangles once, but I much prefer making HSTs the Bonnie Hunter way, using either the Easy Angle ruler or her new Essential Triangle tool. Go to her blogsite quiltville.blogspot.com for more info - look under Tips & Techniques tab at the top of the page.
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