Sophie2

Thanks for sharing the way you do it. Sounds like it is a good way to do it - catching the corners and also the sides. I'll give it a try.

IshtarsMom

Loved doing these by hand...Made several until hand sewing became such a problem..I think if they would just go ahead and fuse that first joint I could get back to it. Still have several bags in waiting...

FurzaFlyin

I have a small bag I carry in my purse all the time. I use freezer paper for the hexies. I cut freezer paper in 6" strips iron two together. I then go to my local grade school and use their diecut machine and cut 6 hexies at a time. I use a hole punch and put a hole in the middle of each hexie. I made a template from the scraps of freezer paper and I am fussy cutting ALL the hexies. 2' hexies. Yes, I am crazy. I am making an I spy Grandmother's Flower garden baby quilt. Each flower is the same pattern. The insides are all yellow.

jbj137

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Hobby Lobby has the punches.
I bought one (XL) there last week.

$17.99 but I had a 40% coupon so was about $11.00

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pjnesler

I've seen some fabulous hexies, hope to see more posted here!

patchy-at-best

Fiskars large punch is 3/4", the extra large is 1".
I punch a hole in the middle for easy removal and baste, but only the corners, never thru the paper. Finger press as you go and a quick press with the iron, once sewn together you only have to quickly pop out the papers, the basting in the corners stays put. I've made EPP and hexi quilts for over 30yrs and tried every method, this is the quickest by far.

WMUTeach

OK for all of you book readers out there, I just finished a book by Tracy Chevalier (The Girl With the Pearl Earing) that has a strong secondary theme about quilting and the difference in quilting styles in the mid 1800's. She mentions specifically hexagon quilts and English paper piecing. This is a rich, detailed novel about a young quaker immigrent from London who came to live in Ohio and in innocence got involved with runaway slaves in 1852. She is a quilter but uses her thread and needle in ways not expected of Quakers.

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kathyd

Here is my tin of 1/2" hexies. I have been basting these for the past couple of weekends. I bought the punch at JoAnn's with a coupon and I use 1 1/2" squares of fabric. Not sure what I will make, maybe just a hodge-podge scrappy quilt. The fabric in the picture is for cutting more squares. I am kind of a glutton for punishment when it comes to piecing, I don't shy away from small pieces. Like everyone says, they are addicting.

ghostrider

I saw a new (to me) way of making hexies this morning on Quilting Arts TV. They're made from circles and you wind up with a double faced hexagon, perfect for table toppers or summer quilts since they don't need batting or use them the same as regular hexies. Julia Wood demonstrated it on QATV, but I found this link to a tutorial for the same technique on another blog. There are probably more out there.
http://devotedtoquilting.wordpress.c...ays-of-scraps/

Apparantly they were called canning jar quilts because the ladies used canning jar lids (the rubber edged flat part) as the template. No matter whose home they were working at, they knew there would be canning jar lids. The hexies wind up being about half the size of the cut circle and you can make them very, very small because there's no seam allowance to worry about and no raw edges.

I bet you could even fold them over batting for little hexie puffs to be sewn together. Here's an earlier QB thread about them when the show first aired in April.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...t-t245449.html

QATV downloads are free (along with a ton of free ebooks) if you join the Quilting Arts site (which is also free), but the QB rules prohibit me from posting that link.

DottyD

Love the black and white hexie quilt - tucsonquilter !