http://www.rileyblakedesigns.com/cut.../6/3/hexagami/
This is a link to a tutorial. Make sure to scroll down the page. Fast and easy!
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http://www.rileyblakedesigns.com/cut.../6/3/hexagami/
This is a link to a tutorial. Make sure to scroll down the page. Fast and easy!
I learned to make hexies with squares with the corners cut off. I then center the fabric over a paper hexie, and fold over the edges, holding it in place with a paper clip. I hand sew it together, folding over the corners, making a small stitch at the corner before going to the next one. Works for me. I can make a ton of them in a short time. I am using a 1" hexie with 2 1/2 inch squares, pressing them when they are done to make sewing them together easier. The left over squares (and I have a lot of them) are being used for enders and leaders and I am stringing those together to make another quilt. Double duty!
I am making a GFG with them, and sewing them together by hand a well with a whip stitch.
Yes, the originator of that way has a book or two out, also a website, but don't remember her name now. By joining the circles in a specific way a hexie is formed.....two sided actually....a cute thing, no templates..I used my GO and die to cut the circles.....I have the book somewhere......
You might check out Folded Hexagon QuiltOriginally Posted by Quilty-Louise
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Janey & John
I have cut my hexes using a metal template that has embedded a very rough texture on the back. I cut a 2.5" strip and cut with the tiny 18mm rotary cutter cutting just to two ends. So simple and quick.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
I am working on one and I'm not sewing y seams. I make a flower first and then add my path.
That's how I do it too!
Yes, my best friend wrote a book about them. It is called, "Quick and Easy Hexie Quilts" by Dr. Peggy G. Rhodes and Julia C. Wood published by AQS. It has been a big for the past couple of years or so. AQS is doing a second printing. The book is really good and is illustrated in full color.
Yes! That's the one I'm thinking of...it is fun and fast!
Julia came to speak at a guild I'm in & then taught a class the next day. I wound up taking the class too & what fun!
Of course I started a quilt & am working on it off & on but I still like regular hexies & am quilting one right now.
Have fun that's what we go for.
Joyce T, RN retired
Laughter is the best medicine
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