Tip toe through the hexagons Cutie style! Cutting
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Cutebuns - thanks for doing this for everyone! You are probably sick of people asking you this but is my fabric suitable for the BOM? I have looked and looked and finally found this fabric. If it is not suitable I would rather you say so and I will use it for something else. Fabric is expensive over here and for my first OBW I was a bit scared to spend $20 metre on fabric I really liked just incase I make a huge mistake!
#243
Originally Posted by burnsk
Originally Posted by cutebuns
the biggest thing is that you don't want to hit the repeat evenly, you want to see mainly one color in some of the blocks, there really isn't a magic formula, it depends on how much of the print that you want to see in each block. it really depends on what you want to see in each of the pieces. obviously there is advantages to cutting bigger blocks like less sewing, the smaller ones can make it easier to have similar or close to the same blocks.
#244
blahel - this fabric looks like it'll work for a obw. You'll have a lot of gray, but you've got that paisley design to work off of and you'll have the punch of color from the apricot, gold and green leaves. I think it'll be interesting.
#246
Hi, Just reading through this. Thank you , Cutebuns for doing the tute. I have wanted to do one of these for years , bought a book. Read through it a couple times. How do you know how much fabric to buy , for a certain size quilt? Like if you want a double size quilt, how do you figure how much fabric to get?
#247
If you are seeing the same triangles go by then yes cut a bit off and move it over. Depending on how close you are to being equal to the length you will just be using it in a different place. At the beginning you cut off a scrap. And the end there is a bit of scrap. Hopefully you don't run past that. That is one reason why you don't want to cut your repeat evenly as well. Like cutting a 24 in repeat in 2,4,6,8 in strips. If you are cutting more than one the second will fall where the first is.
#248
so you mean you can cut the strips in different sizes? Some small, some bigger? I guess since you are ultimately making strips, they'll be fine to put together? Interesting...so different from normal block construction!
#249
Originally Posted by blahel
Cutebuns - thanks for doing this for everyone! You are probably sick of people asking you this but is my fabric suitable for the BOM? I have looked and looked and finally found this fabric. If it is not suitable I would rather you say so and I will use it for something else. Fabric is expensive over here and for my first OBW I was a bit scared to spend $20 metre on fabric I really liked just incase I make a huge mistake!
#250
Originally Posted by fireworkslover
Originally Posted by bailey
Originally Posted by fireworkslover
Bailey,
I just love the fabric you chose and the hex's are really gorgeous. The blocks you've shown are really very different. How many hexagons did you cut (stacks of 6)?
I just love the fabric you chose and the hex's are really gorgeous. The blocks you've shown are really very different. How many hexagons did you cut (stacks of 6)?
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