Tricksy Triangles....

Today has confirmed what I've always suspected.... triangles are tricksy little buggers.

You know where you are with a square.  It's a perfectly down-to-earth, honest, straightforward shape... all the sides are the same length and there are 4 x 90 degree angles, one in each corner.

Simple.

Circles are similarly straightforward, despite their lack of anything approaching a straight line.

I can take or leave rectangles....they don't affect me one way or the other.

But triangles..... *sigh*

It doesn't help that they come in so many different varieties. Do there really need to be so many of them?

When making bunting I generally use either equilateral or isosceles triangles in various sizes, depending on the fabric design I'm using.  I have made a selection of different templates and adjust the sizes as I go.  But occasionally I come across a sneakily different triangle, such as a scalene, which is completely batshit crazy and flies in the face of reason.

And it doesn't stop there..... acute triangles are anything but cute, and as for obtuse triangles.... don't even go there!  Obtuse is defined as 'annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand' which doesn't come close to describing them.

Aside from the thing with the angles, there's also the fact that when making triangular bunting there's a lot of wastage if I'm using a fabric which has a pattern which only reads one way or has specific design elements.  That means I can't line the triangles up across the width of the fabric, but have to carefully work out the orientation and ensure that designs are centred within the triangle.  

This requires meticulous precision and careful measuring and inevitably there are sections of fabric which can't be used... which is wasteful and annoying in equal measure.

So, basically, triangles are an occupational hazard. *sigh*