JanieH

auntpiggylpn: Here is a Hexie calculator to figure out how many you need for a project. http://www.cddesigns.com/PaperPiecing/number.html[/QUOTE]

WOW! This is great! Thanks!

nannyrick

That is gorgeous!!! Awesome job.

pw6

I find that had sewing them gives you the perfect hex.. otherwise it is a mess..LOL

humbird

Oh my goodness!! I'm not sure I wanted to know this. I don't remember the "exact" size of my first 2 quilts, but after calculating, they had to have had well over 4000 hexies each. The one I'm working on now is a bit larger, so for the 3 quilts, I have over 12,000 hexagons!!!!!! Do I really want to do another? Well.................yes. Have a couple in mind to start on as soon as I finish up this one. You might say I'm addicted.....or just plain crazy!

mimiknoxtaylor

I too love hexies! Started when I did the BOM on Craftsy for 2012. Amy Gibson made it fun and now I have lots. Like someone else said, I cut my papers out of about anything on my Go cutter. Such a great take along project.

Everose

Hexies - oh yeah. Started to do some while I sat with my sick father. So the Hospice ladies will get lap quilts when I get them done. Reminds me, I should work on them because I only have a couple weeks before we travel down to AZ again. I am doing really scrappy ones, kind of like a Grandmothers Flower Garden, but not. I photocopied the hexies and then cut them out. Now I'm reusing the papers as I want something to do on the road as we travel. Has been a good project for my scraps also.

QuiltnMyra

Love your avatar Humbird. Is it your work?

kathyd

Since you asked, yes I am also addicted to hexies. I have a GFG that I started years (?) ago. All 1930's prints and I got bored with it. In 2008 I started one using mostly 1800's reproduction fabrics and my own design, the hexagons are 1". Finished it last month. If I knew how to link to the board post I would. it is titled "My Hexagon Masterpiece" you can go there for the particulars on it. Here is a picture. I have also done small wall quilts with 1/2" hexagons. Gonna try something different after the holiday sewing is done.

humbird

Thank you. Yes, it is my work. It was a wedding gift for my GS . I made another similer to it for another GS wedding gift. The one I'm working on now, is for yet another wedding gift for another GS. Have 4 more grands to go. Hope they don't deceide to marry real soon!

humbird

Kathyd, your quilt is beautiful. Truly a work of art. Would you mind sharing how you did the binding/border?