A year or so ago, our quilt guild had a "tag sale." I succumbed to buying this bag of preprinted 1/2 inch hexagons (inklingo.com) for $3.
Obviously the seller had participated in an exchange and the bag contained at least 1,800 hexagons, nine of each color and 200 different fabrics. I had been doing an English paper piecing project at the time, using 3/4 inch hexagons, and had seen a tutorial about using the inklingo printed hexagons, which are connected with a running stitch and without being basted on a template.
I had no idea what I would ever use these little scraps for, but they were just dazzling to look at.
Driving to Maine to meet my new grandchildren left me scrambling for some hand work to bring along and I thought of the hexies.
During the two day car trip, I made this assortment of hexagon flowers.
Here they are all pressed and ready to have the basting removed.
I have to admit, at first I felt like I was all thumbs, trying to connect these little hexagons, especially with the movement of the car, but after a while I got the hang of it. I do think this is a nice way to do paperless Engish paper piecing and I would like to try it with bigger hexagons.
Then I sewed them onto little onesies.
And here's my granddaughter modeling one!
Pretty cute!
Now, what am I going to do with the remaining 1765 hexagons?
