Geri B

Good point.....has anyone else found this to be the case...glue only short term hold.......I would hate to do a truckload of these, set aside for awhile, semiUFO, then go back and find them all undone! I think I will email pieceocake and ask the question about longevity of glue pen. Thanks for that heads up!

QuiltBaer

Sewline is a brand sold by Moda/United Notions.

Veronica

I've have had them detach while I'm sewing long strips together.

judykay

I use the regular washable school glue stick and have not had any problems and some of my hexies have been sitting for over a month, when the occasional one starts to come up I just re glue it. Some of them hold tighter than others but love the quickness of doing this way. Glue stick is a regular staple in many of my pick up and go projects. I have been using it for years for various reasons from positioning difficult fabrics in place when crazy quilting with odd pieces to basting seams especially where they join another seam.

Onebyone

SewLine is the product Sue Daley sells on her website. So far so good with the glue holding. I don't use just a little. I put a line of glue across the end, fold and put the line of glue starting on the fabric. The glue on the fabric holds the corners down. I have some I put glue just on the corners so the paper has no glue at all and so far they are holding. When I start sewing the hexies together I'll remove the papers when the hex is surrounded by other hexies. I don't leave the paper in until I'm finished. I tried the Aileen Tacky glue pen too. It has a teeny tiny tip so a few dots is all I used. I set those aside to see what happens and how hard the paper is to remove. Glue basting is so much faster and easier when I need a lot of hexies in a short time. When I'm not home I use thread for basting.

Yvonne

Clarification for this old brain, please.
I am understanding that you glue/tape your fabric to the hexagon template? Or are you putting a drop of glue in each corner of the fabric instead of thread basting? Then stitching the hexagons together.
I have about a dozen flowers made by hand basting each hexagon and then stitching the hexagons together but have bogged down getting any further along with this project.
Thank you for clarifying this for me. I think I understand but who knows if that's what you really are saying?

feffertim

I used this method with the fons and porter glue stick. It works great and you can make hexes much faster that way.

Onebyone

This video will show you the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqa70gU-E9U

Kath12

I'll be interested too - I hope it works as I go through a lot of the sewline sticks

judykay

I just put a few dabs of gluecstik on my template and baste the fabric that way instead of thread bating. Much faster.