I have done a few small projects with hexies and am currently working on a wallhanging. Don't know when I will get it done but it is a great take along project. I use old greeting cards and the magazine ad inserts to make my hexies. I also use glue stick to baste them, I was basting them with thread but decided to try the glue stick and it is so much faster and once the pieces are sewn they are very easy to pull out. Yes they are a slow process but very relaxing and can be worked on almost any where. I get a lot done waiting for my grandsons to come out of school and waiting in doctors offices with my mother in law. I find them very relaxing .
Originally Posted by
Chaney Ranch
For those of you who are working with the hexies - do you use paper pieces for the base or card stock in Hexie punched shapes? I'm probably not making myself clear, but I've read so many different methods of achieving the end result: Bonnie Hunter and others use a paper punch similar to those used by scrap bookers, some duplicate Hexie grids onto regular copy paper, some have plastic Hexie discs which pop out of the completed Hexie for reuse, and Accuquilt now has two different dies for hexies - one of which cuts both the paper pattern and the slightly larger fabric shape. I realize that in the end it's the same results, but I'm interested in what Y'ALL use. Thanks