Hexagonal Quilt

[E.M. T.]

Ritzy....and everyone...
Here's something I found a while back. I ordered a set today...Short of a single punch...
might be just the thing! http://www.bykate.com/index.html
Call me a tool junkie !

[E.M. T.]

I made a small w/h years ago, and it is on my profile page. "A Spider in my Flowers"

Margarita

[Catherine S.]

Love your spider quilt! And I hate spiders.

[Lotti D.]

Great Hexie quilt, margarita. And I also really like 'ah, Spring'. Fun!

[Nancy H.]

Hi ladies: Just wanted to add my two cents to the Hexagonal Quilt forum. Our guild had a demonstration class on the hexagons from paper pieces and oh boy!!! Talk about getting hooked. I started playing around with them then went to the internet (quilters best friend) and did some research on Paper Pieces, lots and lots of shapes and sizes. Found the Bykate site, didn't like the fact of using a stamp for the template. Then found a site Lindafranz.com for Inklingo which allows you to print the templates directly onto the back of your fabric (backed with freezer paper), cutting lines, sewing lines, everything printed right on the back of your fabric. They have several videos for various templates, diamond, kite, triangle, etc. Check it out. If you are interested I think this would be the way to go. No templates to cut out (unless you wanted to), no basting threads; also has videos on how to sew them by hand or machine. Let me know what you think, I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried this method before.

[E.M. T.]

I'm sure Inklingo works great when you want many hexies from one fabric ! or want to print papers or
"leave in " papers. I mostly work from small scraps so running thru printer not a good plan.
I usually pencil or archival ink so hope stamp will make things a bit quicker. I already use "Paper Pieces"
for templates. And hand cut when I want " leave ins". I think it's great we have so many resources. !
I love to hand sew them..but EPPing improves the accuracy on very little pieces ! :roll:

[Lois B.]

EPPing?

[E.M. T.]

:lol: :lol: English Paper Piecing :roll: :roll:

[Lois B.]

Da!!!

[Lois B.]

Hi ladies: Just wanted to add my two cents to the Hexagonal Quilt forum. Our guild had a demonstration class on the hexagons from paper pieces and oh boy!!! Talk about getting hooked. I started playing around with them then went to the internet (quilters best friend) and did some research on Paper Pieces, lots and lots of shapes and sizes. Found the Bykate site, didn't like the fact of using a stamp for the template. Then found a site Lindafranz.com for Inklingo which allows you to print the templates directly onto the back of your fabric (backed with freezer paper), cutting lines, sewing lines, everything printed right on the back of your fabric. They have several videos for various templates, diamond, kite, triangle, etc. Check it out. If you are interested I think this would be the way to go. No templates to cut out (unless you wanted to), no basting threads; also has videos on how to sew them by hand or machine. Let me know what you think, I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried this method before.

I've got the free inklingo of squares diamonds & triangles and used it to make a bag. For printing on the fabric I either use a large (A4) sticky lable on the back of the fabric instead of freezer paper or starch the fabric so heavily that it is as stiff as paper and run that through - I even managed to send charm squares through without difficulty. If you want to send small pieces through first print a sheet of regular paper then use sticky tape or double sided tape to hold the fabric down onto the paper in the relevant position and then send that through the printer. Just make sure that the leading edge & the sides are well adhered but not the trailing edge.

[Lois B.]

Rosemary,
Thank you for the tips on printing for Inklingo projects. I have just started a small Hexi project, and have had an issue on a couple of fabrics not bonding well to the freezer paper. I will definitely try your A 4 Label suggestion. Also, for your other suggestion regarding using the tape that is sticky on both sides, are you taping the fabric on printing paper or freezer paper?

Take care,

Kathy in CA.

[Lois B.]

I was taping the fabric to ordinary paper - here in UK freezer paper is not widely available and I haven't got around to buying any at the shows yet. When I was working on Too Loud Man I was making 6" Square in a square blocks and was originally drawing them onto the lightest weight sew-in vilene for leave in 'paper' piecing, which got real boring real quick! so I drew the block onto the middle a sheet of A4, copied it with my printer (to see where it would end up on the next sheet) then put double sidded sticky tape along the lead & side edges of the seam allowance, positioned the pre-cut 6.5" square of vilene carefully on top and ran it through the printer. I left the trailing edge open so that I had somewhere to grab for removing the fabric. I also had two of these sheets on the go so that I could be arranging the fabric off/on for one sheet, whilst the second one was printing. The tape was good for loads of copies (30+)

I was put onto the tip of using large A4 labels by my friend, who teaches printing on fabric, as she found that she got better and more consistant results with them, instead of freezer paper and they are good for 6-10 copies. Just don't leave the fabric on for hours, and take care to peel the fabric off evenly, preferably straight of grain if poss. The labels should be available through your stationary stores ie Staples(?)etc but what sizes you can get in USA I don't know, look for the largest possible (A4 is 210 mm x 297mm which = approx 8.27" x 11.69")

Whichever method you use, just make sure that there are not any trailing threads sticking out around the edges :wink: