My first few hexies
 

I love scrappy quilts and I have loads of scraps, so I figured I'd try doing some hexes out of them. I'm also really out of practice doing hand-sewing, and this is certainly a project that gives lots of practice in that arena!

Here are all of the ones I've made so far (I've been at it for a little over a week)
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I sort of fussy-cut when I can, but since these are scraps often the piece is just barely big enough to cover the template. I made my own templates, with a Fiskars punch, a hole punch, and some cardstock I had laying around.

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I started putting them together into flowers, but I'm out of practice so a lot of stitches are showing. I'm not going to redo any of them, though; I figure once the templates are out and it gets quilted & washed most of that will be hidden. My stitches aren't perfect by any means but honestly I'm doing better than I thought I would so I'm happy with how it's going.

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I'm getting a little better as I go, though, and matching the thread a bit helps too.

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No idea what I'll do with these...probably just accumulate them until there's enough to make something out of them! I'm putting them together into those flower shapes but that's as far as I'm going to go until I have a final plan. They might just end up being a bunch of pincushions and potholders or something, LOL.

You have the start of a great quilt.

great start!!!

Love them!!! I have a question...can you cut and sew hexigons without a template behind each one?

beautifully done. im doing one on top of three. yours are very interesting , the fabs, love them
thanks for sharing your quilt with us.

Great hexies!

You can, I did a Christmas wreath wallhanging without templates. However, you get a much cleaner and sharper edge to your hexies if you use the templates or paper.

very nice so far...

Those are very pretty. Great job.

Off to a great start

Great job!!! I keep wanting to do some but I guess I just need to jump in there and start. Thanks for sharing...you'll have to show us your finished product!!!

you have your work cut out for you! good job.

Very nice -- practice does make perfect! I've been working on a few hexies too -- just saw a setting yesterday that I really liked so may have to get back to it. Your pieces certainly fit together well! You should be proud.

Its going to look great,
well done.

Yeah, go for it! I don't hand-sew my bindings (or anything else) so I put together a little "kit" that I'm keeping in DH's TV room to keep my hands busy. My kit is self-contained so it will go on vacation with me too.

It's a pity I get carsick so easily if I look down, otherwise I'd be planning to work on them while on the road for our upcoming road-trip vacation. But my inner ear will not allow such shenanigans, so I'll only be working on them while in our hotel rooms.

You are doing good with this method of making hexies. Good luck with your quilt. Its looking good!

Looks like a great start.

#1piecemaker posted a tutorial on piecing hexies by hand with no foundation used. Don't remember how far back that was. Seems it was only a couple of weeks ago.

wow it looks awesome

Great work!!! I've recently started EPP and I'm loving it more than I thought I would.

Looks like fun! Great color combos!

looking good!!!