Easy Half Square Triangles with Inklingo

I haven't done a lot of machine sewing lately, so today I decided I'd make some half square triangles. I'm using Inklingo. In case you aren't familiar with Inklingo, it is a great quilting tool by Linda Franz. You download shape collections from her web site to your computer. Then you choose your fabrics, iron the right side of the fabric to a sheet of freezer paper, and run it through your printer to print the shapes directly onto the back of your fabric.

First I ironed my light colored fabric with the right side down onto the shiny side of the freezer paper.

If you look close you can see the lines that are printed on the fabric.

I just realized today that if you print using the rectangle layout you can use a jelly roll (or any 2 1/2" strip). After printing, I cut my backgrounds on the vertical solid lines. This is like using Thangles, but I won't have to tear the paper off after I'm finished sewing. (You find out those kind of things if you read the directions!)

From one strip I end up with 6 half square triangles. Or you can cut a piece of fabric 8 1/2" X 11 and sew an entire sheet of half square triangles from one fabric.   I just cut my background fabrics printed with Inklingo into strips to give more variety to my triangles. 

I've had this book by Edyta Sitar for over a year and still want to make a couple of the quilts in it. All of the quilts in this book use 2 1/2" half square triangles and most are scrap quilts. Soooooooooo....I'm not really starting a new project - I'm taming my scraps.

I hope you are all finding some time to stitch today.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!!!