wut. are you freakin kidding me.
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June62012
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(and how come my hand looks so fat in this picture!?!)
14. Use a contrasting colour thread for this stage. You will thank me later. Fluorescent orange works well, and may well be the only use you will ever have for this colour.
15. I use straw needles for hand sewing, but it doesn’t really matter at this stage. Use what you are comfortable with.
16. Knot the end of your thread. You will be tying lots of knots. Learn how to do the magic winding knot. It will save you big heap time.
17. Put a paper onto the wrong side of your fabric piece, and fold one edge of the fabric around the paper.
18. You want your knot on the top of the hexagon; so sew through from the right side, and back up to the right side.
19. Fold the next edge up, and stitch through
20. Repeat for the remaining 4 sides.
21. When you get to the beginning again, just put a stitch through the first side again. Don’t back stitch or anything. It should hold OK.
22. Repeat ad nauseum, until you have enough hexagons to sew something together. Check your pattern and see how the hexagons are supposed to go together .
How to Make a Hexagon Quilt in 492 Easy Steps
1. Choose the size of hexagons you want to use.
2. You can buy precut hexagons from places like Lizard of Oz, or you can print your own if you have access to some quilting software like EQ5.
3. If you are cutting your own papers out, normal printer paper is fine.
4. You can layer 4-5 sheets of paper together and cut out multiple hexagons at the same time.
5. Just make sure that the papers don’t slip, and you are getting an accurate hexagon on all layers.
6. Your arms will get very sore from cutting out all the papers, even if you have the spring loaded Fiskars shears to cut with.
7. If you are cheap like me, you won’t mind the sore arms. Just as long as you don’t have to spend good money on precut hexagons.
8. Choose your fabric. This is a great way to use up tiny useless bits of fabric, as long as they cover the paper.
9. Work out what size square you will need to cover your hexagon. This is not an exact science – I cut these by eye. Without a ruler. I like to live dangerously.
10. But, you can still use “rotary cutting principles” to cut bulk pieces. Cut a strip the required width, then cross cut your squares from the strip.
11. To reduce bulk, you can snip of the corners of your squares.
12. If you are lazy, you don’t need to bother with this step.
13. Next Stage: Basting!!!
(and how come my hand looks so fat in this picture!?!)
14. Use a contrasting colour thread for this stage. You will thank me later. Fluorescent orange works well, and may well be the only use you will ever have for this colour.
15. I use straw needles for hand sewing, but it doesn’t really matter at this stage. Use what you are comfortable with.
16. Knot the end of your thread. You will be tying lots of knots. Learn how to do the magic winding knot. It will save you big heap time.
17. Put a paper onto the wrong side of your fabric piece, and fold one edge of the fabric around the paper.
18. You want your knot on the top of the hexagon; so sew through from the right side, and back up to the right side.
19. Fold the next edge up, and stitch through
20. Repeat for the remaining 4 sides.
21. When you get to the beginning again, just put a stitch through the first side again. Don’t back stitch or anything. It should hold OK.
22. Repeat ad nauseum, until you have enough hexagons to sew something together. Check your pattern and see how the hexagons are supposed to go together .
June32012
Free Online Graph Paper / Hexagonal
Print out different sized patterns for quilt patches! These are the hexagons, but there are different types of triangles linked.
7AM
With tutorial. This looks insanely difficult to line up. BUT <3! Imagine this with Indian textiles. Blues and gold embroidery like galaxies exploding, like the starry night scene from Doctor Who.
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