Hexie..another way
 

After watching YouTube of Sue Daley and her glue method I have been intrigued and wondered if this glue pen was available here in USA...FOUND it at pieceocake.com --- also Becky's video on using it. So, I ordered one...anything to make life easier and making prep time a "piece o cake"!!!!!!!! I am no affiliated with PoC, but have tried their hand appliqué technique and it was helpful, so I will try this.......will let you know when glue pen arrives how it is......like the Little Mermaid....I have gadgets and gizmos galore...but I want more!! this song is running thru my head lately because GGD who is three loves the music cd from movie and we play it in the car when she is with us...and have watched the movie more times than I care to talk about! PS...she overnites here weekly

....then I found hillbillyhandiworks.com. She does fussy cutting hexies, called Ahhhs......using that glue pen and some really cool fabric...this is never ending ......

I have the vinyl hexes called Quilt Patis and found glue did not work well on the slick vinyl but scotch tape does !! Saves time from doing all the basting. I pull the tape off when all 6 sides of a hex has been attached to other hexes.

I bought that glue stick a few years ago either at a quilt shop or vendor booth, can't remember. I guess I was thinking ahead as I found a package of glue refills I bought with it. LOL. I dug it out when seeing the post about it. I am intrigued about the tape idea. I am going to try sticky dots, they are double sided sticky, used in scrapbooking.

You can use just about any glue stick, as long as it's washable. Fons & Porter also makes a glue stick and refills that are easier to find than poor Sue Daley's product. I've used their refills in Sue's stick.

Just wait until the glue manufacturers catch on and start making skinnier sticks.... :thumbup:

Edit: just looked at my glue stick and realized it's NOT one of Sue Daley's - it's a Sewline product!

I just tried the glue stick using card stock paper hexies. It worked great. My glue stick is the Sewline too. But isn't that a Sue Daley product? I have lots of Elmer's washable glue sticks. I am going to heat the glue from one and pour it in an empty pen refill. Let it set and..... who knows it may work and if it doesn't I'm out a little time and spent about a dime. The refills are not that easy to find in my area and ordering the shipping is more then the refills.

Ha ha!! You know, I think you're right!!! I'm such a doorknob!! :D

Fortunately, my LQS carries refills, so I don't have to order online.

Report back after you do your little experiment, please!

Inquiring minds wanna know.... :)

When I use up the glue in the pen I'll certainly try it and post about it.

I found the glue would not hold unless uou hand sewed them quickly and they where not very good

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!

Sewline
 

Sewline is a brand sold by Moda/United Notions.

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

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.

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.

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? :)

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

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

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

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

Speaking of another way to sew hexies, I use a rubber stamp to mark the fabric. Then I cut them out and sew by hand and have no paper to take out or basting stitches. They are fun to do, I am making diamonds with mine and hope to have enough to make a lap quilt soon. They are my take along project.

We were finishing up a hexie quilt someone else started, and a lot of people were working on it. I tried using the washable glue to fold the seam allowances over onto the freezer paper. I tried to glue only the fabric in the corners because I didn't want the fabric to be glued to the papers. But it didn't work too well. Some people sewed these together with invisible thread, and that worked OK, but if they were hand sewn it didn't hold up well enough.

Oh my goodness, OnebyOne thanks for putting in the link for Sue Daley's hexi process. I've been doing these by hand sewing to the card stock paper for a couple of years now. I'm so happy to learn about the glue method and the knicker-knot also. This is going to save me so much time! Now to find the hexi shaped template to use with the rotary cutter. I've been doing them one by one. What a great thread!!!

I've got some that I glued up about 3 months ago and put in my travel bag - pulled them out yesterday and they're still glued tight....and mine on are plastic templates....

I am just getting ready to begin my very first hexi project. Thanks so much for this thread, all the comments, and the video. I think you have just set me up for success!

Here is a free printable hexie pattern that you can cut apart with a rotary cutter-I used my paper cutter from my card making supplies. You can cut hexies, triangles and diamonds from this sheet. I must say, the fisckar hexie punch (around $9 with coupon) is MUCH faster and easier tho!

http://sewquickly.com/1-hexie-template-free-download/

Jillmc is right.

Do yourself a favor and don't cut hex paper shapes. Buy the Fiskar punch. And you don't have to cut fabric hex shapes if you don't want to, a square of fabric will work the same.

Thank you. This did help with answers. I couldn't view the other video so was a bit frustrated. I'm just surprised you can get the templates out once you glue them in! The things one learns from quilters! I'm loving all the shortcut hints that are posted. Yes! I can see this will speed up the GFG progress, lots! Time to go give it a try!
Thank you again!

I use squares all the time, it is just as easy if not easier to cut a square than to cut a hexie.

Now that is interesting...who, where, rubber stamps.....Diamonds...how???

Now if you really want to watch interesting video go to hillbillyhandiworks and watch her do fussy cut hexies!

Inklingo is perfect for printing lines on fabric ready to cut can sew either by hand or machine.