Hexies and Mug Rugs

 

 

 

I'm a newbie to the hexie craze. I've always known about hexies, secretly, in the back of my mind... Not what they were called, or how creative you could be with them... But I knew they were there, I could remember cushion covers my great grandma did with them... Then not quite a week ago I was looking through my scrap bin wondering what I could do with all these little blocky bits as I'd already worked out I could use the 'log cabin quilting' for the strips... when I stumbled upon a hexie page!!!

Approx 400 cut out hexies, 65ish basteded hexies and an infintie number of pin pricks later, I found the Let's Get Hexied! (Hooked on Hexies!) Facebook Group

Ive made myself a template for fussy cutting/template cutting/material cutting. I have collected all my 'sewing kit' cottons that I don't actually use in my machine and put them together.

I've made a generous number of thin card 'paper pieces' and hole punched them for easy pinning and removal...

Any other hints/tips/tricks for a newbie?

Above is a sneak peek of the hexies I made for the facebook group hexie swap. Aren't they so pretty and colourful!

Below is the envelopes I posted them out in... The envelopes desperately needed some hexie love too!

 

Just over a week into my hexie journey I heard a myth about 1/4" hexies... Hexies are so cute, 1/4" hexies would need to be cuter, right? So I tried my hand at some... Although it was about 1am, and I was unable to print the templates for fear of waking the house hold - So I traced them from my laptop screen (Sorry to all the techies out there who just had a heart attack 'cos I touched my laptop screen!) they came out about 1cm each... not the .7cm needed for 1/4"

Doing 1 flower was quite enough for me! It is certianly cute though, but I can't imagine making a quilt from them - Just embellishments. Even then I would have to really love the person a  whole lot!

Here is a progress picture of where my Hexie quilt is at right now - It's just a scrappy one and requires very little planning - I like it that way.

And here, last but not least, is a picture of a couple of  log cabin mug rugs I had pieced, hand stitched, hand quilted and hand finished with pieces from my scrap box. They will go into my 'gifts' box for when needed.

 

The strange part is, I made one using the sewing machine and didn't even bother to finish it - I just didn't like how machine looked after doing 2 by hand... Do you prefer hand or machine quilting?

P.s. The machine sewn mug rugs took an hour compared to about 3-4 hours for the hand sewn ones.

P.p.s Don't tell me not to get too hooked on hexies - I fear it's already too late!