Here I am again asking for help with the OBW. Know this must be simple but just can't figure it out. I have my half hexagons on the design board and ready to sew them together but darn If I can figure it out without doing Y seams. I want to do the straight line stitching but it just doesn't show how to do it in the OBW Encore book. Please help before I go nuts! Mary

You sew 1/2 hex to next 1/2 all the way down a strip.
Make all the strips, then sew them together.

The first book explains it very well ... so chances are the advanced have gone with the assumptions you have read/used the first.



and ...... photos please! :)

I will give that a try....thank you very much...I sure hope I can do it right.

Must add, which side of the 1/2 hex do I sew? In side or the out side?

Mary, I love your avatar. It is so cute!!

Have them on your design wall with the 1/2s pinned together.
Develop layout with the splits vertical.
You're going to unpin them and sew1/2 of #1 to 1/2 #2 etc in one long column.
When you join column A to B ... only alternate ones are going to make up into a whole hex.
Join column C+D in same way, and onwards.

Then when you join AB to CD you get more hexes matching, and eventually all, as you go across the width.


Be sure to NOT mix up the columns or you've got one mixed up disaster!! :)

There is a photo in the book that shows it every well.

well i couldn't find it but someone here posted great photos of how to sew them in rows. very easy to do, no Y seams at all.

When you put the half hexes on the design wall, make sure that all the open seams are parallel.
Take a look at this thread. it is lengthy, but there are several great pictures.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-113997-4.htm