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I think that I have almost made up my mind not to go with embroidered hexagons but to fussy cut them from this white self-print. I have laid a partial strip over the top and like it better than anything else I have tried. I love the butterlies but if I embroidered the hexagons you just wouldn't be able to see them. I suppose I could always have a go at embroidering the larger butterfly in the centre of each hexagon and see how that goes. Too many decisions to make LOL.
Hexagons. Who knew that bees had the secret to understanding the connections between ideas, concepts and facts? I have been using hexagons with groups of children and teachers over the past year but it took me a while to get it. I had seen them on social media posted by teacher heroes like Russel Tarr…
I personally quite like the look of Minecraft using hexagons
How to Cut Hexagons Any Size: There are a few ways to cut hexagons out of wood, like a table saw with a miter gauge, a band saw or even a miter saw. If you want to batch out several hexagons and make them consistent, you need a jig. That’s why a couple years ago I threw together…
Hello Everyone Here in the Midwest, it is almost spring. I'm looking forward to sitting out on the porch to do some hand stitching. I'm also looking forward to attending some quilt shows and some one stop shop hops. I've had several people ask what has happened to my blog. My laptop is mostly in my sewing room, so instead of sitting at the computer I usually sit at the sewing machine. And, I know a lot of you out there are closet game players. I usually sit here and play the daily solitaire challenge. I know it's a bit of a time waster, but I look at it as exercise for my brain..... That's my story anyway. So sometimes the solitaire happens and the blog post doesn't. I am over on Instagram a bit. Over there it's just a photo with a couple of sentences and some hash tags ####. I never thought I'd see the day when I would hash tag anything, but I do. That was what we used when we played tic-tac-toe to kill time in study hall back in high school. A hash tag is just another word for labels. I put as many labels as I can on my blog posts and Instagram posts so if someone is searching for a topic, they might come across my posts. I've put the link to my INSTAGRAM account over on the right side of the page so you can come over there and follow me. Here is what I've been spending a lot of my sewing time on. These are 3/4" hexagons - my favorite size. A group of us over on Instagram and Facebook are making the quilt that Libby Morgan made in the book by Leah Zieber, Libby Morgan Reunion. The quilt is made of hexagons surrounded by a path. . The next few photos are of some of my 3/4" hexagons. Most of my hexagons are fussy cut...probably 99% of them. Most of my fabric looks like Swiss cheese, but I love the look of fussy cut hexagons or anything English paper pieced. And I do revisit my pieces of swiss cheese to cut other hexagons or cut for scrap quilts. Those scraps are also good for applique'. This container is just my 3/4" basted and cut hexagons. Honestly, I found this blog post in my drafts folder. I had it scheduled to post almost a year ago. Something happened, and it didn't post. I have the quilt top almost put together and am ready to choose a border. Here are the beginnings of adding the path between the hexagons. Karen over at FaeriesandFibres blog adds 5 path hexagons to each rosette, and they fit together kind of like a puzzle. That is really a good way to work on the path right along with sewing the hexagons. I'm not exactly sure what fabric I will use for my border fabric, but I auditioned this fabric by Di Ford Hall and think it is a definite possibility. Then a few of us over on Instagram went off the deep end and are making these double hexagons. We hashtag them Liberated Libbies because they are the regular inside hexagon arrangement with the outer ring arranged in different ways. They are really just double hexagons. You saw the photo above with the container of 3/4" hexagons cut and over half are ready to be glue basted to the paper pieces. I have two other containers of 1" hexagons with the same amount or more. One has Civil War/repro hexagons and the other has bright fabrics. I also have a bag of 1 1/4" hexagons left over from my Road 66 quilt but I'm cutting them down to use with my other 1" hexagons. Here are some of my double hexagons. I've cut a few "new" hexagons, but I'm trying to use those that I already have cut to make this quilt. I'm not quite sure of the arrangement I'll use yet. Right now, I'm just having fun matching up the fabrics and sewing them. I really love to fussy cut hexagons or any English Paper Piecing as much if not more than I like to sew them. Here is the link to my fussy cutting tutorial. I explain how I choose fabrics for fussy cutting and how I place my templates on the fabric. I use pretty old fashioned methods, but I enjoy tracing around my template with a marker and then cutting the hexagons out with scissors. That is great TV work in the evenings, and I find it relaxing. Here is the link to my Lucy Boston Framed Tutorial showing you how I fussy cut a striped fabric to make a frame around the outside round of a Lucy Boston block. I have a lot more in the works to show you, so I'll be back again soon. Thanks for stopping by for a visit. I hope you're finding some time to stitch today!
Good morning people! I've done several tutorials about how I like to have fun with hexagons, more fun than just using one fabric basted to a...
This is one of my creations. If you like you can download the free pattern here: Hexagons are my Stars (Tutorial) - by DanielaH, estrella_hexagono_hastaelmonyo If you make one I would love to see your project pictures. If you are on Ravelry you can add your pictures here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hexagons-are-my-stars-tutorial Oana from oana’s crochet channel made a great video tutorial…
Of all the crochet blocks, I like hexagons the most. Find here amazing crochet hexagon blanket patterns! And they are free.
I like to draft my own master templates of diamonds, equilateral triangles and hexagons. A hexagon is made up of three diamonds and half a d...
In this video I share how to create easy crochet hexagons and half hexagons. If you would like to learn how to join them as you go here is a link to the comp...
So I have to say I really like mixing my hexagons with other shapes, it really brings a wow factor to the project. Here I punched out b...
Hello Guys. I m trying to find the way how to make geometry like this. I m doing honeycomb from hexagonal grid with attractor and I wanna get hexagons that h…
I adore Norah Gaughan and her use of hexagons. I'd like to think she'd appreciate these socks. They are constructed not from the cuff down...
Hello dear readers This is the third day in a row that we've had a heat advisory here, so it is perfect weather for doing some stitching. The weather service alert says that afternoon and early evening temperatures will be in the lower to middle 90s, with maximum heat index values around 105 degrees. They say to put off all strenuous activities. They don't have to tell me twice: the vacuum cleaner is parked in the closet, the stove is off, and I'm sitting in the air conditioning with my needle, thread and hexagons. I have a lot of 1" hexagons basted, so I have been making more of these double hexagons. I usually baste 6 hexagons from one fabric, and I usually find something that I think would look good fussy cut. Sometimes if I find a fabric that I really like, I'll baste 12 from the same fabric. A lot of the time, two of the fabrics I use come from the same fabric line like the two purple fabrics. The red stripe was just in the container. When I find a fabric like I used in the first two centers, I baste several of these because I think the center hexagon makes it look like a flower. The inner floral fabric and the blue stripe are cut from the same piece of fabric. The brown wavy is from the Lewis & Clark line by Barbara Brackman. I still have some of it left, and I use it sparingly. I love that fabric! This is my container of basted 1'" repro hexagons. You can see I've used snack bags to group more of these double hexagons. I have another container just like this with bright 1" hexagons. In the afternoons, I usually pour a glass of iced tea and take a basket of hexagons to stitch out to the porch for awhile. These are the hexagons for the Rose of Kaleigh sew along by Sue Daley. I think there are 52 of these 3/4" hexagons. The ones on the right are complete with the center. The pile on the left still needs to have the center sewn in. By the way, I have switched to these Tulip #9 Sewing Needles to do my English Paper Piecing, and I think they are saving my hands. They are showing up in a lot of quilt shops and are available on line. I had 17 of these bright hexagons finished and some more cut, and I wasn't sure what I would do with them. My friend, Michele, showed me a photo of a hexagon quilt in the June issue of American Patchwork and Quilting magazine by Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life blog. Her hexagon quilt uses 35 hexagons so I basted and stitched 18 more for the quilt. The background is 4 squares of low volume fabrics made into four patches, and I will hand applique' the hexagons onto the background. I think that will be a good summer project (yes....another one). Michele also got me started on these Lone Star quilts. They are made using a foundation by Quiltsmart. They have a light fusible on one side and are marked with placement and sewing lines. This was my first one, and I've kept going. I even taught a group up in northern Indiana how to make this Lone Star quilt. This one is 38" without the border. I used batiks on this first one because it's easier to concentrate on the technique and not worry about getting the fabric upside down. This was my second Lone Star. I love this one in fall colors. The fabrics were given to me by my friend, Barb. I just love the border print. This is the Little Lone Star at 19". Michele gave me this bag to carry quilts in. These are really Laundry bags, but they are great for taking quilts to show and tell or packing a lot of "stuff" to go to a retreat. In order to cover the word laundry stitched on the bag, I covered it with a 6 pointed star left over from my quilt. This is the 38" Lone Star made by one of my students, Kim. She invited me to come up to Hebron, Indiana, to sew with her group for the day and teach them the Lone Star. Pam brought hers along to the Jane Stickle retreat in Shipshewana, and she finished it while she was there. Judy was almost finished with hers, too. I didn't get a photo of her progress. This is my Pretty Plates quilt. Theses blocks are English Paper Pieced, and the pattern is by Annette Williams of Sewing the Good Life. These blocks have very little hand sewing and are appliqued' down to the background. I added broderie perse flowers in the centers of my blocks using fabric by Di Ford, and I machine quilted it. I know this looks like a lot, but I did a trunk show for the Evening Star Quilters in Columbus, Indiana. That is always a good motivator to finish quilts. I hope you are still reading because I have seen several of my favorite bloggers ranting talking about the problem with Blogger Comments. Not long ago, I found out that I was only getting part of the email notifications when someone left a comment on my post so unless I went to my own blog post, I didn't see those comments that were left. I went in and toggled and untoggled my settings to get it to work. Today, I was reading Fun with Barb's blog, and she says this is just the way that it's going to be. It's a change and not a problem with Blogger. One way around this is for me to post and then put down the first comment and then the rest of the comments will come to my inbox (I think). But, if I don't know your email address then I won't be able to email you back. I'm not sure what their thinking is with this. I have been told that I should reply down below the person's comment. After I've read a blog and comment, I hardly ever go back to a blog again until their next post. How about you? I'm going to link with Judy over at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday. Hope you are finding some time to stitch today! Thanks for stopping by for a visit!
Normally I am not a big fan of models folded from odd shape paper such as hexagons... but there must always be exceptions... like this magnificent daffodil b...
A Facebook friend sent me a link for downloading interesting, free paper as a possible template for praying in color prayers. The page was full of connecting hexagons and looked like the cellular structure of a beehive. I noticed that the link offered other shapes besides hexagons and the opportunity to change the size of [...]
Good morning! Evan and I are hanging out at home today, waiting to pick Jack up from his first day of pre-school camp. He officially starts pre-school next week, but I wanted to give him an introduction to his new school and teacher, before the first day. Evan's first day of pre-school was somewhat of a disaster (we were all in tears!), and I wanted to avoid that this time around. Jack handled it like a champ this morning and barely noticed we left. But I can't wait to pick him up in an hour... I miss having him around! I had a chance to create two cards for the Moxie Fab Hooked on Hexagons challenge last night while watching the Olympics. I used Papertrey Ink's Happy Hexagons stamp set for both cards. First up, a clean and simple card featuring Happy Hexagons, Think Big Favorites #3, and a lot of white space. I used PTI's hexagon cover plate to create the individual hexagon pieces. After stamping each piece I used the negative of the cover plate to line up the hexagons on my card before adhering: (All supplies are Papertrey Ink - Stamps: Happy Hexagons, Think Big Favorites #3. Cardstock: Stampers Select White. Ink: Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry, Winter Wisteria, Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon. Cover Plate: Hexagons.) I went a completely different direction with my second card. I paired Papertrey Ink's Honey Bees with Happy Hexagons to created a fun, patterned card. The kraft cardstock was impressed using PTI's Simple Stripes impression plate and the hexagons were stamped with harvest gold ink. (All supplies are PTI - Stamps: Happy Hexagons, Honey Bees, Fillable Frames #10. Ink: Smokey Shadow, Harvest Gold. Cardstock: Harvest Gold, Kraft, White. Ribbon: Harvest Gold. Other: Buttons.) I hope everyone has a fantastic Monday!
I had so many questions about my hexagon quilt that I showed Monday, that I decided to do a quick tutorial to answer them. First , here are the dies I used. I know, they look like they don't go together, but they do. The hexagons have 2 1/2" FINISHED sides. The triangles do too…
