Krisb, don't recall hearing a rant out of you...
Carol in WI, great fabrics you have chosen!
ScubaK, what worked easiest for me on the clue 3 units was cutting the neutral end triangles out of strips, using the Easy Angle ruler. Then the center parallelograms: also cut from strips. I wasn't sure what markings on the Easy Angle ruler to use for those until I saw Macybaby's tute. I just followed her pictures and cut them as she did. Everything went together easily and I could press both seams the same direction, like we were supposed to.
Macybaby's tute is in post #925, and her first two photos show exactly how to cut the parallelograms with the Easy Angle ruler.
I'm so glad we haven't been asked to sew
hourglasses, or
tri-recs, yet. I don't enjoy those. Hope my luck holds!