I have never ever been into hexies, but recently I saw a show where someone demo'ed making hexies starting with a fabric round. Any size round, hexies finish about 1/2 the size of the round. Now I SO WANT to start making some in some of my bright patterned fabrics.

I like hexies too! I bought some reproduction 20's and 30's to make a Grandmother's Garden quilt. I bought some plastic templates that I think are 2" or maybe 3". All you do is trace around the template making 1/4 inch to fold over, baste it closed, iron it and them pop out the template to use again. I am planning to hand sew the pieces together. I have had the fabric for at least 10 years. And the templates nearly as long. Need to get going on it I guess!

I keep a small tub of fabric scraps in my RV to make hexies. We go out for weeks and usually have no electricity. I download the shapes of EPP from here: http://www.printablepaper.net/previe...trait-letter-1. I reuse the shapes and can get two to three out of each paper.

I made a double size GFG with what were the rage back in 1996. They are called Quilt Patis. They are thick soft bendable plastic with a hole punch in the center. When you have all six sides attached, you can pop out the center. I ended up making a bunch more. It certainly beats trying to remove all that paper when the quilt is finished. :)

i remember seeing those on one of the quilting shows... i'm wondering, though, how you baste to them.

I saw the same program, Quilting ART's I think. I too plan to give this a try, will be traveling two hours a day twice a month. And I do not have to drive, time to try this new to me technique!

I love hexies. I think I can only make them by hand. I just do not
thing me and the sewing machine would survive if I tried to machine sew them

when I was using the template plastic and now that I am using the card stock, I don't baste thru the papers, only on the back. I don't have to remove any of my basting stitches when I am done with my quilt. I remove my templates after I sew a section to the main body of the quilt.

Thank y'all so much for the information. When traveling, I need some sort of hand work that doesn't take all that much concentration, and I think Hexies will be perfect! Thanks again.

I just saw the most beautiful hexie quilt yesterday on FB, and I can't get it out of my mind! Adding it to my quilt bucket list. ;)