Tag: #hexies
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How To Baste A Hexie
Today I’d like to share how to baste a hexie paper template for English Paper Piecing (EPP). EPP is a really fun way to make quilts. It’s when paper templates are used to create shapes that fit together to make a quilt top. Hexagons are used extensively, but other shapes can be used too. The […]
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My Sewing Machine
I love my sewing machine! It’s a Juki TL-2010Q and it seems to be the best sewing machine for quilting – for me. I’m sharing a real-life photo: this is how my sewing machine looks most of the time. I had planned on sharing a post about my workspace, but I will save that till […]
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Whipstitched Hexie Rows
This is another quick tutorial on how I sew my hexies together. After a layout, and sewing all the rows together as in my last post, I’m ready to start sewing the rows together! I start from the left side – I have the first smaller rows stitched together already and now I’m adding the […]
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Back To It: Hand Sewing Hexies – Tutorial
I’m sewing some hexies together for the center of the Heart Chakra quilt project I’m currently working on. I’ve sewn a few whole quilts with hexies and I’m going to share with you how I sew my hexies together without any stitching showing on the front. To start, these are the notions I use: Needle: […]
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EPP Hexie Patterns
I’ve been working hard over the last month to create these patterns for all of my hexie quilts and projects, and I finally finished them all! These are all English Paper Pieced patterns (EPP). The Jellyfish, The Wood Dragon, The Squid, Hummingbird, and A Hexie Garden Patterns are all available as .pdf downloads. It was […]
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If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say…
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say… We have a lot in common. I saw this saying on a shirt recently and it hits the nail on the head. I’ve actually written about 2-3 blog posts a week over the last month, but haven’t posted any of them because there’s not a lot of […]