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Basic Hexagon Quilting – Tutorial

March 12, 2009 by Craft Passion 14 Comments

Sewing, Basic How-To, Crafts, Novice, Skill Level

5 from 10 reviews:
hexagon quilting

Hope you have had a wonderful time sewing and I am doing a bit of hexagon quilting (English paper piecing) during the weekend for a project. I learned this English Paper Piercing from my mom and we have made a few blankets for our family since young, all hand-sewn with love!!!

Can you guess what I making with this lock of hexagon quilting? 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. 

Since I am doing it, I photographed the steps just to show you the process to make blocks of hexagon quilting.

How To Sew Hexagon Quilt Block

english paper piercing

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.

hexagon quilting The back.

 

The front.

hexagon quilting

 

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

hexagon quilting

 

After sewing a centerpiece surrounding by 6 hexagons, you will get a 6 petals flower of hexagon quilting.

The one I made (as shown in the first photo) is slightly different where I have 2 centerpieces and that makes 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 a blanket, motif, or other creations of hexagon quilting.

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

  1. Mickie -

    August 1, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    Great tutorial. Keep up the good work.

    Reply
  2. mary -

    December 31, 2013 at 3:04 am

    good

    Reply
  3. Sue Griffeth -

    March 28, 2013 at 5:59 am

    I punch a hole in the center of my papers if they are small, two holes if they are larger than 1″, two holes allow you to put in a pin to hold the paper in place. To remove papers, simply use tweezers or a blunt tipped object into the hole and slip the paper out, saving the work of removing all those basting threads, have fun, Sue.

    Reply
  4. Aubrey -

    June 19, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    Great! Thank you.

    Reply
  5. Aubrey -

    June 18, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    This is a really great tutorial. One quick question, how do you remove the cardboard?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      June 19, 2012 at 9:11 am

      Hi Aubrey, All you need to do is remove the basting stitches and pull the cardboard out 🙂

      Reply
  6. nellie -

    February 4, 2011 at 11:01 am

    i really enjoy our website, you make so many great projects to for me to try out ,and thank you for free patterns ,please add on your list so i can see more new projects and don,t miss your newsletters .Nellie

    Reply
  7. Doris -

    April 27, 2010 at 5:17 am

    Me parece bastante facil de coser y luego retirar el carton. Gracias
    por el tutorial.

    Translation (by Google):
    It seems quite easy to sew and then remove the carton. Thanks
    by the tutorial.

    Reply
  8. elizabeth -

    December 28, 2009 at 3:41 am

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

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      December 28, 2009 at 9:40 am

      I sewed them by hand using whip stitch.

      Reply
  9. YY -

    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

    Reply
  10. Craftpassion -

    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).

    Reply
  11. Suze -

    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.

    Reply

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    July 10, 2019 at 9:28 am

    […] You can also sew the hexies on the shell of the Turtle Pincushion shown below with this quick method too. (My previous tutorial for this turtle pincushion was using the traditional English Paper Piecing method.) […]

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