"Dumb" Hexie Question
#21
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I haven't used the Fiskars punch for fabric but I have the Creative Memories hex punch that you push down like a big button and it cuts fabric when ironed to freezer paper. I thought the Fiskars would work that way too. I guess not since it is squeezed punched. I usually order the papers from paperpieces.com. So convenient if you like to use the papers. They have every shape for EPP.
#23
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Essex, UK
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I bought a pack of 300 hexies by paper pieces, but as I am in the UK it cost quite a lot! I found the xl hexie punch for about the same price as the pack of papers so I figure it will work out cheaper on the end if I can just punch my own papers. I was planning on getting a nice big pack of cheapy card to use when I can find some :-)
#24
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The Finger Lakes of upstate NY
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Free hexie templates - including diamond. Print, cut with an old rotary cutter blade (or scissors - NOT THE FABRIC ONES she says, screaming ) http://sewquickly.com/1-hexie-template-free-download/ A nice tute:
http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.co...templates.html
I have the Fiskars XL punch; it works great on cardstock - and my fav is the multiple subscription cards that come in every magazine.
Although I am just starting w/ hexies, I am fussy cutting. A great tute: http://luannsloosethreads.blogspot.c...-tutorial.html
http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.co...templates.html
I have the Fiskars XL punch; it works great on cardstock - and my fav is the multiple subscription cards that come in every magazine.
Although I am just starting w/ hexies, I am fussy cutting. A great tute: http://luannsloosethreads.blogspot.c...-tutorial.html
#25
Okay...I am understanding that most of you cut your fabric into squares, then trim after hexie is basted. Is this correct? How much larger do I make the square than the finished hexie? 1/2", 1"...this is where I get stuck now. Thanks.
BTW, buying cards, etc. at thrift shops is a great idea! I've been using recycled file folders with my Fiskar's punch.
BTW, buying cards, etc. at thrift shops is a great idea! I've been using recycled file folders with my Fiskar's punch.
#26
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Michigan. . .FINALLY!!!!
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Okay...I am understanding that most of you cut your fabric into squares, then trim after hexie is basted. Is this correct? How much larger do I make the square than the finished hexie? 1/2", 1"...this is where I get stuck now. Thanks.
BTW, buying cards, etc. at thrift shops is a great idea! I've been using recycled file folders with my Fiskar's punch.
BTW, buying cards, etc. at thrift shops is a great idea! I've been using recycled file folders with my Fiskar's punch.
#28
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
I'm not using squares, I'm using scraps so my fabric starts off all kinds of weird shapes. I pin my hexie template to the fabric and then sort of roughly trim the fabric down to a hex-ish shape, trying to leave somewhere between a quarter-inch to half-inch of fabric around the template.
I was taught to baste right through the paper but I used cardstock, so I've copied what I saw others here posting and just put a couple stitches at each corner. Seems to be working great! I sure am slow though, I only can do about 5 or 6 in a sitting before I get sick of it. I really am not much of a hand-sewer but I'm determined that eventually I will make enough of these that I can do something with them!
I haven't joined any together yet but I don't think that part will be hard. It will take me forever, but it won't be hard!
I was taught to baste right through the paper but I used cardstock, so I've copied what I saw others here posting and just put a couple stitches at each corner. Seems to be working great! I sure am slow though, I only can do about 5 or 6 in a sitting before I get sick of it. I really am not much of a hand-sewer but I'm determined that eventually I will make enough of these that I can do something with them!
I haven't joined any together yet but I don't think that part will be hard. It will take me forever, but it won't be hard!
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