Does anyone use Thangles when they quilt? I noticed the lovely BOM quilt posted and wondered if others had done BOM's or use Thangles.

I have used thangles. They came in a kit. They were okay. I don't know that I would buy them. I can make an acceptable half square triangle with other methods.

I use them for really small HST. THere is a site that has a print out similiar so you can do your own for free. Sorry can't remember the site, maybe someone else can remember.

Just another item to spend money on and I would rather buy FABRIC! Plus I have EQ where I can print out paperpiecing templates if I need them, say for flying geese. I make my HST the quick piecing way, cutting out a large square, draw lines, and sew 1/4" each side of line and then cut on line. The next question you will have is how do I do this, right?I have to go through my files and find the formula, and will post it under tutorials.

Yes, I use them all of the time. They are quick , easy and accurate. Just bought "Trianglulations" for my computer, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm working on 4 BOM. (Civil War, Chestnut and Vine, primitive Calendar Girls, and Buck a Block with 30's fabric) I don't always finish in the proper month, but I am keeping up on most.

i can't stand them. they do not rip well from the fabric.

the paper is far to thick for paper piecing.

the LQS here does a buck a block BOM with thangles.

I use them. You can also download HST triangle gridded paper to try the technique out. The site is: www.blockcentral.com/a-halfsquaretrianglepaper
Be sure that your printer prints exactly the size it says it's printing. Some printers don't print exactly and the preferences in the printer have to be adjusted.

I like BOM's, I do my own versions in between projects. I'm doing one at the LQS and I've done a couple here on the QB. I've never tried thangles, though.

A LQS did a buck a block BOM quilt a few years ago and I signed up for it. I didn't care for using the Thangles but I really do like the accuracy I achieved with them. My blocks and the intersections were spot-on accurate. I didn't like the ripping the paper part though.

I hate spending money on something I can do quite as well. I just made 396 HST by drawing a set of squares (3x3) in a grid on the lighter fabric, drew the hypotenuses (hypoteni?) then sewed a quarter inch to each side of the hypotenuse, pressed, then cut apart and pressed open. It was pretty quick and the money I saved on thangles (paper to buy to throw out? Not my style) can be used elsewhere (think: fabric--woo hoo)

I like Thangles and I like the pages you can print from quilterscache.com for making HST's.

I would be happy with anything that helps me get these (blankety blank) HST's right! :mrgreen:

Open up that Triangulations CD - you will LOVE it! It's a collection of HST's, QST's, Flying Geese and quilt patterns all in pdf format. The HST's are organized in 1/16" increments - you get a LOT Of different sizes!

One of the BOM's I'm in is nothing but HST's - nine 1½" and one 6" HST's in each one. I print out five pages of each size, iron the fat eighths right sides together and pin a trimmed page of each size to the fabrics.

Takes no time at all to do the sewing and cutting apart, but there is the removing of paper. I use newsprint, so it comes off easily - and the little extra time I spend cleaning off paper is well justified by the fact that all the HST's are usable, consistent in size and don't need trimming. :) My blocks are coming out the right size and I'm not chopping off all my points! :lol:

It's really slick - there aren't a lot of quilt notions that live up to their press, but Triangulations does. :)

I use these:
http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/Shop/shopindex.htm
These are the size I use the most for a lot of hst. , other sizes I have the die for the Go to use.
I found the cost of buying the paper is worth every penny compared to the waste of time to draw my own every time I'm ready to use them.

I tried them. Hated them. But I had already cut all of my fabric to work with the Thangles. I had just taken a class with Sally Schneider and she had a little tool called a Gizmo that you use to make HST with rectangles instead of squares so I used that instead.

No they just sit in the packageing looking cute and easy but I have yet to try them :)