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Media Press Tutorial: How To Draw Hexagon For Quilt Block
I can’t remember if I learned this during primary school, but I definitely remember the way my mum taught me while making hexagon quilt blanket for us… using a compass to draw…. My first lesson to sew a hexagon flower quilt block is to draw this cardboard hexagon templates. Till today, I still hear my mum’s voice mumbling in my ears….
“a perfect hexagon flower quilt block comes from precised hexagon templates”…..
Until I was a little older, I learned to use an angular ruler to draw hexagons in my formal education, like divide the 360° into 6 part in a circle etc…. But, I still love my mum’s way, with just a simple tool, a compass…. so straight forward and fool proof!!! If you are using computer aided software to generate hexagon template, this is one of the simplest methods…. just replace the compass with circles.
Draw your own size of hexagon template by using this tutorial to make your hexagon quilt.
Tools:
1. Drawing Compass
2. Pencil (sharpened)
3. Ruler
4. Cardboard
5. Scissor
Draw a circle on a cardboard with a drawing compass of your desire radius.
The radius is in fact the width of one of your hexagon’s edges.
The widest width of the hexagon is the diameter of the circle, which is 2 x the radius.
Mark the first point arbitrary on the circle.
With the same settings on the compass, place the compass needle on the 1st point and mark the second intersection point on the circle.
Rotate the compass to the other side of the circle, mark the 3rd intersection point.
Repeat the process by moving the compass needle to 2nd point and 3rd point to mark for the 4th and 5th point respectively, then later the 6th point.
You might want to counter check if the marking is correct, for example, when your needle is on 2nd point and you are marking for the 4th point, rotate your compass to the 1st point and see if the pencil still touches the same point.
After you have all the 6 points marked on the circle, draw a straight line segment in between the immediate intersections. With 6 equal segments on the circle, here is your hexagon.
Cut the hexagon out from the cardboard. Used it as template and start tracing out hexagons for your paper piecing quilt project.
Check the shape and size consistency. If needed, draw another new hexagon template if the first one has worn off after doing some tracings.
Draw another bigger template for the fabric. Add another 1/2″ to 3/4″ to the radius for the fabric template, repeat the hexagon drawing technique to create the fabric template. You need only a few of this for just tracing the hexagons on the fabric.
Different sizes of hexagons, starting from 1″ to 3″ width.
Get enough pieces of them (1 size) for your planned quilt project and sew them together.
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Hola Muchas gracias por el tutorial para hacer el hexagono.
Un abrazo.
Translation (by Google):
Hi Thanks for the tutorial to make the hexagon.
A hug.
You are welcome
Hope this help crafter to customize their hexagon size.
thanks the tutorial is great…
This is sooo great for custom sizes! Thanks so much, I’ll be linking.
Thanks for linking
Oh – this will be so helpful! I have been thinking of making a quilt of 10″ squares, but I’d love to make it of 10″ hexes instead. I love small hexies (I’ve gone down as small as 1/4″), but I think it would be really cool to have a Really Big Hex quilt.
Cool.
SongBird
Show me when you got them finished…. looking forward
Wow! This is a surefire easy way to get it exactly right. I have struggled to make these for a long time and am not able to do it very well. With your tutorial I now feel comfident I will get it done right. Now I’m excited about making hexagons. Thanks for posting this.
Glad to hear that!!!!
Wow….just came upon this after searching net for hours….. now I can make them in any size I want….. And to think, math was my best subject in school…lol. Thanks a lot.