If you succumb to the addiction and make a few dozen Inklingo Pieced Hexagons this summer, what will you do with them? There are some setting ideas in Wednesday Tute 07. Please note: The ultra low price on the new ebook ends tomorrow night at midnight!
Monkey and I have prepared a one-page guide for machine sewing LeMoyne Stars and we would love you to try it!
The new Curvy Hexie Star shapes can be used with matching hexagons to make some fabulous designs. The dimensions of 60° Hexagons can be a bit confusing, and since there is a choice of 4 sizes, let's compare.
There are 4 new shape collections today for anyone who loves hexagons and loves stars!
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If you succumb to the addiction and make a few dozen Inklingo Pieced Hexagons this summer, what will you do with them? There are some setting ideas in Wednesday Tute 07. Please note: The ultra low price on the new ebook ends tomorrow night at midnight!
There are at least 300 Pieced Hexagon designs in this video. If you count the variations for each one with different color placement, there are thousands!
If you succumb to the addiction and make a few dozen Inklingo Pieced Hexagons this summer, what will you do with them? There are some setting ideas in Wednesday Tute 07. Please note: The ultra low price on the new ebook ends tomorrow night at midnight!
Moncarapacho! I saw the name and had lots of questions. Could it be an exotic chocolate? A person? A color? How is it pronounced? Well, I looked it up. Moncarapacho is the name of a parish in southern
You asked for Inklingo shapes for Passacaglia and they are ready now, thanks to the gracious permission of Quiltmania and Willyne Hammerstein!
My rendition of an unfinished quilt in the Chicago Art Museum, by an unknown quilter. I changed the middle and added a border. It is made with 3/4 inch hexagons and completely hand pieced using Inklingo. It was long arm quilted by The Quilters Attic in TN. Made by Kathy Timmons Started in 2015 and finished in 2016. Quilted in 2017 after I moved to Mexico
These Inklingo Pieced Hexagons combine shapes in the new diamond shape collection with the shapes in the hexagon shape collection. It's amazing!
I'm starting a new round of (hopefully) interesting blocks. All of them letters of the alphabet, all of them made with hexagons, all of them fully Inklingoable. The picture here shows my first mock-up on the designwall, with all 26 letters of the (English) alphabet. For the next 26 weeks, you'll get a new letter each week, until you have the full (English) alphabet, and can write anything you want ... provided you want to write anything at all. In the 27th week, I will post directions on filler blocks, for the bottom row, and in the 28th week, I'll show and tell you how to make your alphabet-blocks into an alphabet sampler quilt-top. The Hexagon alphabet is based on two quilts from the Red and White exhibition (and iPad app) that was in New York for one week in March 2011. Two of those quilts used letters made with hexagons. Not all letters were present in those two quilts, so the remainder has been invented by me, and some letters have been emended by me. I have chosen to make each letter into a rectangle. This is because not all letters are the same width, and some have quarter-hexagons in two corners, some in all four, and if you want to write an actual sentence (or name) with these letters, they need to have about the same space between them to be legible. The way I've made the letters, there is one half-hexagon (other half) of space from the letter itself to the edge of the (individual letter) block, which equals one full hexagon between letters. To make this work for words, add a futher two hexagon-width between words. Please note, that there are no fabric-requirements given on any of these blocks. That is because they can be made with any size hexagon ! Do consider size, though. The difference in size, depending on which size hexagon you use, is huge : Height of blocks, if using 0.25" hexagons : 2.25" 0.5" hexagons : 4.5" 0.75" hexagons : 6.75" 1" hexagons : 9" 1.25" hexagons : 11.25" 1.5" hexagons : 13.5" 2" hexagons : 18" 3" hexagons : 27" The 0.75" and 1.5" hexagons are both in collection #3 (CD and book, seriously good value for your money), the rest are available in individual, downloadable collections. Check out the Inklingo Hexagon Page. I've made a 'general printing table' for you to print out, and fill in with the size hexagon you want to make (link below). The amounts printed of each shape, will give you a complete, 26-letters, English Alphabet, and two filler-blocks for the bottom row. When you have done your calculations as to how much fabric you need to print all the shapes involved in the right numbers, please add enough background-fabric to enable you to straighten out the individual rows (making them all same length), and enough of both background and letter-fabric to make one or more borders, and a binding. Your guess as to how much is as good as mine here, and all depends on what size hexagon you choose to use. I have worked my letters in the 0.5" hexagon size, and started out with about 2.5 yards of each fabric. So far, there is still loads to spare. General Printing Table here.
So, all blocks have been stitched, and it's time to put it all together, and get your top ready for quilting. The directions on how to cut and measure are a bit involved but I'll try it anyway. The lack of fixed measurements is because you might have used another size hexagon than I did. I used the 0.5" hexies but if you used the o.75", the 1" or one of the even larger sizes, fixed measurements will be wildly off. To make this easier to do for yourself, copy the directions, but instead of the words in parentheses, write the actual measurements you arrive at, measurements that are consistent with the size of hexagon you chose to use. Cut two strips of fabric which is (height of letter block) x (two hexagons width + 0.5") Join one to each side of your filler-blocks. Join the blocks into rows, making sure, on the last row, that the strip on the side of your filler-block goes towards the letters, making an extra space between letters and fillers. (Picture above is a mock-up and the rows are not yet joined on it) Measure the longest row; that's the TUVW row Measure the shortest row; that's the KLMN row Divide the difference in length with two To the width arrived at, add (two widths of your hexagon + o.5" seam-allowance) Add a strip (height of letter block) x (the above measurement) to each side of each row. Yes. You will waste some fabric, but this is the fastest way to do it. If you don't want to waste any fabric, measure carefully and add strips to either side of each row, according to your measurements. Find the centre on each strip (folding in half is great) Join the strips, so that the centre of one row matches the centre of the next row. Since I have made the letters individually, it is a bear (downright impossible) to press half-way decently in the joins between blocks and in the joins between rows. I pressed to either side to ease the bulk of the 'bad' joins. Trim the sides. I aimed at having 1" (= one width of hexagon) on the side of the blocks on the longest row (TUVW) I then added the same width of Background-fabric border to the top and the bottom, giving a (fairly) uniform space all around the letters. And finally, a wider border, made with my focus-fabric, all the way around. Layer, baste, quilt-as-desired, bind AND (and this is important) SIGN the quilt. You never know which quilt will end up becoming a family heir-loom, so sign every one of them :-)
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Inklingo is converting quilters like Fern in Singapore from EPP to a running stitch one quilter at a time. In the meantime, quilters who love whip-stitching are benefiting from Inklingo too! There are 8 good ways to use Inklingo for EPP.
Is this the shape that launch'd a thousand quilts? Monkey and Kit Marlowe collaborated on this one.
There's a new PDF on the blog so you can plan a color scheme for 10 Pieced Hexagons.
The new Curvy Hexie Star shapes can be used with matching hexagons to make some fabulous designs. The dimensions of 60° Hexagons can be a bit confusing, and since there is a choice of 4 sizes, let's compare.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Monkey and I have prepared a one-page guide for machine sewing LeMoyne Stars and we would love you to try it!
Cathi is making these using the 6" Pickled Clamshell collection.
Kathy is working on her Patchwork of the Crosses and writes: "I have all of the larger blocks done and I am now working on the connectors and then the backgrounds. This picture is of my POTC blocks. They are out of orientals and are all hand pieced."
Is everyone printing and cutting Curvy Hexies today? I am and I'm sharing my best tips for rotary cutting curved shapes.
Inklingo is converting quilters like Fern in Singapore from EPP to a running stitch one quilter at a time. In the meantime, quilters who love whip-stitching are benefiting from Inklingo too! There are 8 good ways to use Inklingo for EPP.
This blog is a way to show your Inklingo projects to others, share what pattern you used (if any) and what Inklingo collection/s.
Happy Valentine's Day! We hope you fall in love with Clue # 3.
Joan has been making more of her gorgeous POTC blocks. It's well worth taking the time to click on each picture and see a larger version. The fussy cutting/printing Joan has done resulted in some wonderful effects.
I love this design! I would love to know who thought of it. It would be perfect for a quick and easy baby quilt, don't you think?
Joan has been making more of her gorgeous POTC blocks. It's well worth taking the time to click on each picture and see a larger version. The fussy cutting/printing Joan has done resulted in some wonderful effects.
Joan has been making more of her gorgeous POTC blocks. It's well worth taking the time to click on each picture and see a larger version. The fussy cutting/printing Joan has done resulted in some wonderful effects.
Looking for a portable project for the holidays? Pieced Hexagons are my choice!
Inklingo is converting quilters like Fern in Singapore from EPP to a running stitch one quilter at a time. In the meantime, quilters who love whip-stitching are benefiting from Inklingo too! There are 8 good ways to use Inklingo for EPP.
Maryam seems unable to help herself, and has made not only her second, but also her third and fourth POTC / Lucy Boston block. She is planni...
I'm starting a new round of (hopefully) interesting blocks. All of them letters of the alphabet, all of them made with hexagons, all of them...
Joan has been making more of her gorgeous POTC blocks. It's well worth taking the time to click on each picture and see a larger version. The fussy cutting/printing Joan has done resulted in some wonderful effects.
Inklingo is converting quilters like Fern in Singapore from EPP to a running stitch one quilter at a time. In the meantime, quilters who love whip-stitching are benefiting from Inklingo too! There are 8 good ways to use Inklingo for EPP.
The new Curvy Hexie Star shapes can be used with matching hexagons to make some fabulous designs. The dimensions of 60° Hexagons can be a bit confusing, and since there is a choice of 4 sizes, let's compare.
If you succumb to the addiction and make a few dozen Inklingo Pieced Hexagons this summer, what will you do with them? There are some setting ideas in Wednesday Tute 07. Please note: The ultra low price on the new ebook ends tomorrow night at midnight!
