I saw a new (to me) way of making hexies this morning on Quilting Arts TV. They're made from circles and you wind up with a double faced hexagon, perfect for table toppers or summer quilts since they don't need batting or use them the same as regular hexies. Julia Wood demonstrated it on QATV, but I found this link to a tutorial for the same technique on another blog. There are probably more out there.
http://devotedtoquilting.wordpress.c...ays-of-scraps/
Apparantly they were called canning jar quilts because the ladies used canning jar lids (the rubber edged flat part) as the template. No matter whose home they were working at, they knew there would be canning jar lids. The hexies wind up being about half the size of the cut circle and you can make them very, very small because there's no seam allowance to worry about and no raw edges.
I bet you could even fold them over batting for little hexie puffs to be sewn together. Here's an earlier QB thread about them when the show first aired in April.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...t-t245449.html
QATV downloads are free (along with a ton of free ebooks) if you join the Quilting Arts site (which is also free), but the QB rules prohibit me from posting that link.