Cutting Your Pieces
Use a small amount of water soluble glue stick to hold your paper in place on the reverse side of your fabrics, (Pic 2) or if using freezer paper simply iron on (the No.1 reason I like freezer paper for this job) . You can use pins to hold the papers in place but these don’t give as good a hold as the other alternatives. Place the papers on the reverse side of the fabric in such a way so that you will be able to cut them out with a seam allowance all the way around the shape. Ie.. At least 1/2” apart. You will need to cut 1 hexagon for your center, 6 hexagons for your 1st round and 12 hexagons for your 2nd round. (Pic 3)
Cut out all you pieces so that there is approx 1/4 seam allowance all the around. You don’t have to 100% accurate here, eyeballing the cut will be fine (pic4)
NB: Be very light handed with the glue stick otherwise you are gonna have to soak those babies out.
Pic 3; Papers attached to fabrics
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Pic 2: apply a small amount of glue stick to paper
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Pic 4: Cut Pieces
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