How to Cut Thangles

Video Transcript

"JEANETTE WHITE: Hi. I'm Jeanette White for Expert Village and Piper's Quilts & Comforts in Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah. Today, we're doing thangles. Now, we've already stitched them together. We're going to cut these first vertically and for that, you will need a ruler. I like this little short ruler because your 6x 24-inch ruler kinda gets long for doing this process but if you'll cut the sides first, then the rest gets easy. And I like to just freehand this with my rotary cutter, and believe me you can do this a lot faster than lining this up with a ruler on all these little short lines. So now, I've cut these all apart, and now, I'll cut down the diagonal. Now, on this diagonal one, you really can kinda be casual because this is just your seam allowance. So, it's not like cutting the outside perimeter. You can see now, I've got these all cut apart and now we're going to give them a quick press. Now, when we layered these in the very beginning, we did the dark on the bottom and then the light, in that way when we go to press these, the seam allowance is going with a piece of paper right here, that is supporting our seam allowance so we don't have to fold the paper back on itself. And that's why it's kind of important that you do the dark fabric first, then the light fabric, and then when you come to this stage of it, there's no problem. You could see now I've got 4 half square triangles. In my work, there's anything-I can do anything I want with these, I can do a pinwheel like I have here, or we can do all kinds of different configurations and this is a really fun quilt to do just for a young quilter to do just strips of these or we could put them together in this configuration and create an on-point square. Or, we could take this apart and we can do flying geese. The possibilities are endless. They go on and on and on. Thangles are absolutely wonderful and we here at Piper's love them. There are lots of classes that give you all kinds of ideas and further possibilities with this technique."