Bizarre Love Triangles For Crafters

Often while thrifting for fabrics I come across little bags full of pre-cut shapes, that a quilter once cut out but never used. Sometimes there are some really neat fabrics in those bags, but they are already cut into tiny squares, and some of the fabrics are patterns I wouldn’t want to use in my own creations, and I would have to pay too much for just a few squares that I liked. (Note: I am not a quilter.)

Recently I came across a small bag of a bunch of triangles in designs I actually thought were usable. After washing them, they came out in a big jumble like this:

I found it quite pretty, so I left it on the coffee table for a bit. Then I put a bunch of the triangles into a bowl, which is where I shall leave a nice group of them.

A bowl of fabric triangles is a bit more inspiring than a bowl of fake fruit, no?

Of course the time came when I had to iron some of these to turn them back into triangles. I did none of the cutting, but playing with the triangles further reinforced the fact that quilters are powerful crafters!

Alas, some of the triangles will be sewn together. Others will remain independent triangles used for purses such as this one:

It turns out that lovely triangles aren’t so bizarre after all! And I look forward to including them in more purse designs.