What am I missing (or am I really that dumb)?
04-07-2011, 07:53 AM
#53
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This post is so good! I've had my OBW fabric sitting there, staring at me, for several weeks. I haven't cut into it yet because I could not understand how I was going to sew all those "whole" octagons/hexagons together. - Thanks for giving an "AHA" moment to many of us.
04-07-2011, 07:55 AM
#54
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Originally Posted by Joyce29
This post is so good! I've had my OBW fabric sitting there, staring at me, for several weeks. I haven't cut into it yet because I could not understand how I was going to sew all those "whole" octagons/hexagons together. - Thanks for giving an "AHA" moment to many of us.
04-07-2011, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Suzi
Originally Posted by saf
Originally Posted by Suzi
AHA!! - EUREKA!! - SHAZAAM!! - BINGO!! I dwaddled around out at the kennels, hoping that one of these comments would click when I returned and reread. Trapezoids from RebeccaVLQ gave me a mental picture, amma's pic of her OBW let me see what I needed to see and then dunster put the cap on it. It turns out that my main problem was that I had laid out the hexes without regard to where the pinned centers were facing ...... some were right and most were wrong. Every one of you helped me and I'm forever grateful. This board is fantastic ----- I belong to a few forums covering several different subjects and none of them would have gotton me out of this jam so quickly and so well. Thank you, thank you, thank you ...........!!!
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04-07-2011, 08:24 AM
#57
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Does this help? This is my quilting challenge for the quilting group I'm with. Not a typical OBW but the concept it the same. I thought I'd be slick and sew the hexs together then join....oops....not going to work so I had to ripe out the center seam and lay out like I should have in the first place. Good luck!!! PM me if you need to talk this through, I'll help as much as a newbie in OBW can. Helen
half of it is sewn together, working on strips and then add to remaining unit
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close up of main unit the next strip and 1/2 hexs that have to be sewn together to create strip
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04-07-2011, 08:24 AM
#58
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Originally Posted by Suzi
I have read the book and read CuteBuns' tute 'til I'm blue in the face and I STILL can't figure out how to sew this OBW together. Is there anyone out there who can help me here? I'm a visual person - I guess just reading the instructions isn't penatrating
04-07-2011, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by kathy
it looks like you sewed thw whole hex together, you don't do that, only 1/2 the sew 1/2 of the next one onto the end, so you have a long row of halves, then when you make the next row of halves, you sew the two rows togwther, that makes the block complete
04-07-2011, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by amma
Here is a close up of my OBW
See how each individual hexagon unit is off set? They do not line up in a row, they kind of zig zag.
I hope this helps :D
See how each individual hexagon unit is off set? They do not line up in a row, they kind of zig zag.
I hope this helps :D
Oh Suzi, I understand oh so well the frustration of trying to figure this problem out. I too am visual but, now that I see it, all the wordy responses make total sense.
I am humbled by the wisdom that is expressed on this board and the fact that everyone is so willing to help. Thanks to all!
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