Stupid Hexi question

Reply Subscribe

Page 3 of 6

Last »

Thread Tools

09-28-2016, 05:53 AM

#21

Karen G

Senior Member

Join Date: Nov 2011

Location: the middle of Michigan

Posts: 850

Hilary, sweet!!!

09-28-2016, 07:23 AM

#22

fruitloop

Senior Member

Join Date: Oct 2014

Posts: 540

Beautiful quilt! I too, don't understand reusing the papers.

09-28-2016, 07:27 AM

#23

BettyGee

Super Member

Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Colorado

Posts: 2,254

There is no such thing as a stupid question. It shows that you want to learn. Sounds like you've gotten all the advice you need so go for it!

09-28-2016, 08:30 AM

#24

carolynjo

Super Member

Join Date: Jul 2010

Posts: 6,430

Stitch along the edge of the fold and don't pierce the paper. Then, gently remove the paper when through with the flower.

09-28-2016, 08:50 AM

#25

tessagin

Power Poster

Join Date: Mar 2013

Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.

Posts: 16,105

I purchased the Dritz 1.5" papers also. The pack has a 100 so it's a good start. I made some of my own but that was taking a while. Since there a 7 hexies to a "flower", I separate into groups of 7 and laying them out would be easy way for me to measure size quilt I can make.

Quote:

Originally Posted by redstilettos

CoventryUK: That is EXACTLY what I want to do! Wow that is So pretty!

I went out and purchased some Dritz 1.5" papers last night. I am working at a quilt show in Suring, WI all day Saturday, so I am hoping I can work on this in my "down time"

Oh....another question: once stiched, do you iron them before putting them together? I would think it would help lay them flat and keep the stitches smaller then, maybe? Or am I over thinking it?

09-28-2016, 09:33 AM

#26

NoraB

Senior Member

Join Date: Jan 2015

Location: Southwest

Posts: 738

Anyone wanting to try hexies....paperpieces.com has a 30% off sale until Sept. 30. They also sell polar notions......fabric boards...so a good time to try something new!

09-28-2016, 12:47 PM

#27

junegerbracht

Senior Member

Join Date: Jan 2011

Posts: 659

Quote:

Originally Posted by Onebyone

I seldom reuse the papers. My grand loved to punch them out with a punch or cut them with my Go die so I have shoeboxes full of cut hexie papers. I like the lightweight card stock to use for the papers.

I too punch them out - use junk mail so don't even have to buy card stock.

09-28-2016, 01:03 PM

#28

waltonalice

Junior Member

Join Date: Apr 2014

Location: Catskills, New York

Posts: 262

You can buy bags of the plastic hexes in many sizes. They all have holes in the middle for easy removal. You can also go to Inlingo.com to purchase a program which will print on the back of your fabric: there will be lines for the outer cut edge, along with dash lines inside the larger hexie. You can cut on the outer lines either with scissors or with rotary cutters. You can either hand or machine sew on the dashed lines and get perfect results. The nice part about hand sewing is that you use a running stitch, which won't show as much as the system with paper piecing.To prepare the fabric, you iron freezer paper to the front of the fabric and place the fabric in your paper tray in the printer, being sure to have the back of the fabric placed correctly so that the printing goes on the fabric rather than on the back of the freezer paper.

Last edited by waltonalice; 09-28-2016 at 01:06 PM.