I can’t remember if I learned this technique of drawing hexagon 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 mumblings 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 hexagon 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.
Excellent! And thank you!
cool! This helps a lot! I have made them before; but not like this.
Check out out website, Paperpieces.com! We have precut hexagons…& lots of other shapes too!
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.
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!!!!
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 🙂
This is sooo great for custom sizes! Thanks so much, I’ll be linking.
Thanks for linking 🙂
thanks the tutorial is great…
🙂 Thanks.
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.