Here are some of the half-square triangles I made.
I will admit that I like Thangles and I don't like Thangles. Here's why! I like how easily you can chain piece with them. There is less fabric waste. It's quick to cut the pieces apart, and there is only paper to remove from half the block.
I found, though, that if I followed the directions and cut my fabric strips exactly the width of the paper strips, I had trouble keeping everything straight and aligned, therefore, resulting in some not-so-perfect half-square triangles. When I discovered I was having this problem, I then decided to try cutting my fabric strips slightly wider than the paper strip, oh about 1/8" to 1/4" wider. You can see my fabric is wider than the paper strip in the following photo.
I found that by using the wider fabric strip, I did have more trimming to do, but I did have better half-square triangles in the end. So all in all, I would give Thangles a thumbs-up rating, but I still plan to use the paper-piecing method I had used before, for certain projects, because I think it will work better for when I'm using up scraps of fabric.
Here are the newest blocks that are available for you to make. The first two are Block 7 in both of the color ways I'm creating.
And these next two are from a bonus block that Vicki created. She made a variation of Block 6 to create Block 6A.
You will find the block patterns here. And be sure to check out the Free Projects page, as we added some new things just today.