Basic Hexagon Quilting – Tutorial

March 12, 2009 by Craft Passion
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I am doing bit of hexagon quilting during the weekend for a project. I am not telling what it is, you got to guess. Some photos here should give you a great hint!!! I will post up the finished piece, so come back later to check out. See if you get it right! Sorry, no prize!

Since I am doing it, I photographed the steps just to show you the process to make a hexagon quilt.

First, you need to cut out the hexagon shape cardboards and fabrics of your choice. The size of the fabric must be big enough so that you can fold it over like the picture shown below. An estimation of double the size of your hexagon cardboard is required.

Tack stitch the fabric while folding it to the cardboard as shown. This is to secure the fabric in place in the shape of a hexagon.

The back.

The front.

With front facing each other, sew the 2 pieces up. Only pick the fabric to sew, not the cardboard.

After sewing a centre piece surrounding by 6 hexagons, you will get a flower-look of 6 petals.

The one I made (as shown on the first photo) is slightly different where I have 2 centre pieces and that make it look elongated like an oval shape. That is going to be my secret project that I will tell you later. So, stay tuned!

Remark: After you have finished sewing and joining with enough hexagons, you will have to remove the cardboard and go on sewing into blanket, motif or other creations.

Update!

I have created a pin cushion project from this hexagon quilt, please go there and have a look!

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7 Responses to “Basic Hexagon Quilting – Tutorial”

GreenWitch says:

March 13, 2009 at 2:45 am

六角形我都好喜歡，不過懶還未開始……

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Suze says:

March 16, 2009 at 5:23 am

Do you ever take out the cardboard? Are you sewing through the cardboard? As you can tell, I’ve never done hexagon quilting before.

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Craftpassion says:

March 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Hi Suze, Sorry for skipping the details, thanks for pointing it out. Yes, you need to take out the cardboard after joining up all hexagons (1st photo).

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YY says:

April 1, 2009 at 2:44 pm

this recall my memory when I were small, my mum also asked me to sew it….Wah..you didn’t drop ur hobby..Yenny

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elizabeth says:

December 28, 2009 at 3:41 am

Can you sew hexagons together on a sewing machine or are they all sew together by hand.

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- Craft Passion says:
  
  December 28, 2009 at 9:40 am
  
  I sewed them by hand using whip stitch.
  
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[...] WELCOME, Ms.Pinky and Mr. Greeny!!! I created Greeny as an experiment, if you go back to my hexagon quilt tutorial post, you will see Greeny is hiding in the background as I photographed the steps. From idea, to paper, [...]

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