I put my Grandmother’s Flower Garden hexie blocks in a bin and forgot about them…for almost a year. Time to bring them out and use them for an “airport project”. Nothing like English Paper Piecing while waiting to catch a plane!
I now have 13 blocks with a white hexie border. I want to join all these blocks together with a fabric reminiscent of the 30’s. I tried a few print fabrics but the print competed with the prints in the flowers and my eyes went bonkers! I am interviewing this solid green fabric as a “joiner”, what do you think?
When I started this project (long ago), I used a whip stitch to attach my fabric to the templates. Recently, I have seen a lot of information about glue basting hexies for English Paper Piecing. I might give this technique a try when I join my flowers together.
Do you have any tips or tricks for glue basting hexies? I’d love to hear from you!
The green looks perfect. I have never done an English pieced he is. I’m curious as to how the glue basting will work. I need to clean my iron. Any tips on the best way to do this?
Ok! I better get back to my EPP sitting in the end table in the living room! I started glue basting hexies onto the EPP templates – I used the Sewline glue stick and here is a YouTube video that is like the one I used to learn how (I could not find the exact video but this is similar) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlhsXhbdxB0
Thanks for the link!
The flower garden is beautiful, a special project to finish. This summer we are air traveling and I plan to bring my hexies. Do they let you have little scissors on the plane?
I just use the paper template and stitch like you do; I wonder is glueing makes it harder to take out the template?!
I like this woman’s blog and post
http://alittlehappyplace.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-little-happy-tutorial-english-paper.html
I always take small child safety scissors (I stole them from my son’s old crayon box) and I have not had a problem getting them through the scanner. Thanks for the link!
Good to know, thanks 🙂
I think a very pale yellow with white polka dots might pull it all together well.
Ohhh, I like this idea. Now off to shop!