My second OBW, off to Mexico
11-18-2010, 06:18 AM
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[How do you put the hexagons together?
I went crazzzzzzyyy trying to do the jigsaw it became.
How do you square off the edges?
Yours is so pretty and I really could use your help! Thanks in any case.[/quote]
Remember the hexagons are only pinned in the middle so then when you get them all on the design wall how you like them (nestledstaggered/) you then have to take half a hex, unpin, sew the half to the half below it til you have a long vertical line down, then do the next row vertically, half hex again. When you have 2 long vertical rows you then sew them together and you will have every 2nd block as a full hexagon and the other will be a half until you get your next row done. Hmm, clear as mud? I just cut half my hexagons off of the top and bottom to square the quilt up but there are other ways to do that, too.
I went crazzzzzzyyy trying to do the jigsaw it became.
How do you square off the edges?
Yours is so pretty and I really could use your help! Thanks in any case.[/quote]
Remember the hexagons are only pinned in the middle so then when you get them all on the design wall how you like them (nestledstaggered/) you then have to take half a hex, unpin, sew the half to the half below it til you have a long vertical line down, then do the next row vertically, half hex again. When you have 2 long vertical rows you then sew them together and you will have every 2nd block as a full hexagon and the other will be a half until you get your next row done. Hmm, clear as mud? I just cut half my hexagons off of the top and bottom to square the quilt up but there are other ways to do that, too.
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