humbird

I am working on my 2nd GFG now, and appliqued the hex edge to a stright length of fabric making a stright edge border. I then did applique flowers and leaves etc. to the border. I plan to do a scallop edge binding on the one I am working on now. The other was stright edge binding. I do like the facing in the youtube demo.

Greenheron

Great tip--she's made it plain. I never wanted to do an irregular edge but now it looks fun.

NanaJan

Thank you sooooo much! I am also working on a GFG for my grand daughter...have my hexie flowers done but still have to sew them all together. I've been stuck during this process on how to bind. I've look at the ones in the gallery and just couldn't figure it out. Now I have a good idea how to do it! Now if I can just figure out how to bookmark this for when I'm ready, I'll be set!

thimblebug6000

Great tute link, thanks! Using blue scraps for years on hexagons...this is a great finish, hope I can find the tute again once I near the end of piecing.

117becca

here are some pictures of how i finished mine....My aunt made the top, and i added the border to make it a bit wider and i hand quilted it. Of course, hand-quilting is how I think they should be finished...

The quilt was made in the 50s - the border was added last year with reproduction fabrics.

LucyInTheSky

Here's a link to the Quiltboard Gallery for GFG. It shows a lot of different examples of finishing, and some machine quilting examples too

http://www.quiltingboard.com/blogs/g...den-b3491.html

LucyInTheSky

You could also cut your templates in half to make half hexagons and use those for the edges as needed to get a straight edge without having to cut the hexagons after you English paper piece them into the quilt

sewbeadit

Loved the facing tutorial!