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Wednesday Tute 02 – Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

May 29th, 2013 by

NEW VIDEO

In our last video, we showed you 300 pieced hexagons you can make with Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 or with other hexagon and diamond shape collections.

Today there is a new video.

Click to watch “Inklingo Pieced Hexagons from Diamonds.”

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons from Diamonds Video

Would you like to start with only one Diamond Shape Collection?

This new video shows about 40 Pieced Hexagons that use only 4 shapes.

You can have fun making enough Pieced Hexagons for one of the Settings for Pieced Hexagons we shared earlier this year. (That’s one of my favorite pages.)

You can be very creative with only 4 shapes.

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons from Diamonds

These shapes are available in several sizes. The triangles are half and quarter diamonds.

All of the sizes are listed in the Index of Shapes (under the Support tab), but we’ll list them here too.

All of these collections have everything you need to make all of the designs in the video.

There is also a small shape collection with the 2.0 inch 60° Diamond, but you need a second shape collection to get the related 2 inch 60° Triangles.

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons with Diamonds

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PIECED HEXAGONS IN THE VIDEO

There are illustrations of Pieced Hexagons made with Diamonds in an earlier blog message.

I started designing a new PDF with illustrations of some of these Pieced Hexagons because they look so pretty with the Timeless Treasures swatches.

It was a nice plan, but I had a massage this afternoon to ease my neck after too many hours at the computer. When I got home I was so relaxed that I found it hard to concentrate on the details. I made a mistake uploading the video to YouTube too, or this would have been posted hours ago.

Don’t worry. It should be possible to post a cute new PDF before next Wednesday’s Tute, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, there are several articles about Pieced Hexagons in the blog archives and there are other Inklingo videos on YouTube about designing and sewing hexagons:

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons with Diamonds

HEXAGON LOVERS UNITE

Do you know quilters who like Pieced Hexagon designs?

Please tell your friends about the new video and the new Wednesday Tutes!

Are you subscribed?

If you don’t want to miss anything, you can enter your email address (top of right sidebar).

See you next Wednesday—if not before. Thank you for visiting.

Linda & Monkey

New to Inklingo? Order and download free shapes and start sewing in the next few minutes. Quick Start (Always FREE.) There are triangles, diamonds, and squares in the free collection—great for dozens of different blocks.

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Wednesday Tute 01 – Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

May 22nd, 2013 by

FREE PDF TO DOWNLOAD

There are a few simple things you need to know about designing with 60° shapes for Pieced Hexagons.

We have summarized them in a two-page PDF which you can download (below). We thought it would be a good way to start our Wednesday Tutes for Inklingo Pieced Hexagons.

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

1. Hexagons are always named by the length of a finished side.

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

2. The measurement from point to point across a hexagon is always twice the measurement of a finished side.

 

8 Inklingo Shapes for Pieced Hexagons

3. With these 8 shapes, you can make the 300 Pieced Hexagon designs in the new video on YouTube—in a variety of sizes!

(It is easier to read the small print if you download the PDF, below.)

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

4. The Big shape is always twice as big as the Little shape.

For example, if the Little shape is a 0.5 inch Diamond, the Big shapes will have 1.0 inch sides and the Pieced Hexagons will be 2 inches (4 inches across from point to point).

The chart on this page is handy.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF (2 pages)

Click here to download our Inklingo Pieced Hexagon Wednesday Tute 01.

(49 MB. I am still trying to figure out how to make it smaller. It seems unnecessarily large, but the swatches of Timeless Treasures fabric make it pretty.)

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

WHAT SIZES?

Our two-page PDF shows 8 sizes you can make with Inklingo with Big and Little Hexagon and Diamond shapes.

60° Diamonds are not available in every size yet.

RIDICULOUSLY SMALL?

For example, there are no Inklingo 0.25 inch 60° Diamonds, so you are saved from making certain ridiculously tiny Pieced Hexagons. (You can thank me later.) They would have 1 inch sides and be 2 inches across from point to point.

However, there is nothing but sanity to stop you from making many other itty bitty Pieced Hexagon designs which use 0.25 inch Hexagons (and partial hexagons) with 0.5 inch Hexagons and Diamonds (and parts). Think it over first, okay?

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

THE MOST POPULAR SIZE

The most popular size is 3 inch Pieced Hexagons (6 inches across from point to point). That may be because all of the shapes are available on the Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 CD, which has been available since 2007.

Cathi of Quilt Obsession saw one design (above) flash past in the new video and decided she had to make it. You can see hers on Quilt Obsession.

Cathi has been using Inklingo from the beginning, so she is celebrating 7 years too.

BIG BIGGIES

With 1.5 and 3 inch Hexagon and Diamond shape collections, you can make Hexagons which are 12 inches across from point to point. That’s big.

INDEX OF SHAPES

You can see which sizes of Diamonds and Hexagons are available in the Index of Shapes under the Support & Goodies tab on the website.

CAN’T WAIT FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY?

While you are waiting for our next Pieced Hexagon Tute, you might want to watch the video on YouTube.

The designs zoom past quickly but you can pause and examine the ones you like the best. You may see them differently now that you have the first PDF lesson.

We will share more of them in a PDF next Wednesday.

 

Inklingo 300 Pieced Hexagons (Video)Click to play the video.

There are several articles about Pieced Hexagons in the blog archives and there are other Inklingo videos on YouTube about sewing hexagons by hand and by machine:

There is some info about Pieced Hexagons in the Inklingo Smart Shopper’s Idea Book (free PDF to download).  Look for Candied Hexagons and VariaHex.

HEXAGON LOVERS UNITE

Do you know quilters who like Pieced Hexagon designs?

Please tell your friends about the new video and the new Wednesday Pieced Hexagon Tutes!

Are you subscribed?

If you don’t want to miss anything, you can enter your email address (right sidebar). There’s more good stuff coming!

See you next Wednesday—if not before. Thank you for visiting.

Linda & Monkey

New to Inklingo? Order and download free shapes and start sewing in the next few minutes. Quick Start (Always FREE.) There are triangles, diamonds, and squares in the free collection—great for dozens of different blocks.

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300 Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

May 19th, 2013 by

We’re celebrating the 7 year anniversary of the first Inklingo shape collection with Pieced Hexagons and they are gorgeous! Click to play the video.

WEDNESDAY TUTORIALS

In addition to the video, for the next few Wednesdays I will add mini-tutes (tutorials) on the blog for designing and sewing Pieced Hexagons.

You can make this a great portable project for the summer or choose a size to sew by machine.

 

Timeless Treasures

Timeless Treasures gave me permission to use swatches of their gorgeous fabrics in the illustrations.

We think they look fabulous in the video!

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

I limited myself to only 8 shapes in 2 sizes and created 300 Pieced Hexagons in 1 video.

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

3 INCH HEXAGONS

3 inch Pieced Hexagons are 6 inches across from point to point.

If you have Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 you can make all 300 designs in this size. Isn’t that amazing?

MANY OTHER SIZES

We’ll show you how to make them with Inklingo in smaller and larger sizes too.

 

Inklingo # 3 book & CD   Book and CD  for all 300 designs

Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 (book and CD from 2007) is unbelievable value while supplies last—30 shapes and sizes + the beautiful book-on-paper!—but the CD requires Windows. (System Requirements)

If you don’t have Windows or if you are worried about CDs becoming obsolete some day (and all CDs will eventually, just like floppy disks and VHS tapes), the shapes are also downloadable.

 3 inch Pieced Hexagons to Download (instead of Inklingo # 3)

The only size that was missing was the little diamonds, so we added them today.

 

New Inklingo Diamonds

INTRO PRICE

As usual, the new downloadable 60° Diamonds 0.75 inch are at a very special intro price—but for a few days only!

CAN’T WAIT FOR WEDNESDAY?

These are so much fun to design and sew!

While you are waiting for the first Wednesday Pieced Hexagon Tute, you might want to review a few articles about Pieced Hexagons we added early this year:

There are even more in the archives. (The blog is searchable too.)

There is some info about Pieced Hexagons in the Inklingo Smart Shopper’s Idea Book (free PDF to download).  Look for Candied Hexagons and VariaHex.

Are you subscribed?

If you don’t want to miss anything, you can enter your email address (right sidebar). You will always be the first to know. There’s more good stuff coming!

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagon Tutorials

HEXAGON LOVERS UNITE

Do you know quilters who like Pieced Hexagon designs? Please let them know about the new video and the new Wednesday Pieced Hexagon Tutes!

See you Wednesday. In the meantime, piece on!

Linda & Monkey

New to Inklingo? Order and download free shapes and start sewing in the next few minutes. Quick Start (Always FREE.) There are triangles, diamonds, and squares in the free collection—great for dozens of different blocks.

$10 Coupon!  6 Year Anniversary Special on the handbook

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Inklingo Star Points in Electric Quilt 02

May 11th, 2013 by

Inklingo Star Points printed on fabric

When you print the shapes on fabric, you can rotary cut several layers at a time to start sewing sooner and finish sewing faster than with any other method.

As promised, today you can download worksheets for Texas Star variations AND a new EQ project file.

DESIGNS WITH STAR POINTS

Star Points were requested by Inklingo quilters who want to make the blue and white Texas Star variation in the header on Cathi′s Quilt Obsession blog.

TEXAS STAR VARIATIONS

Cathi made her Texas Star Variation in 2006 with shapes on the Inklingo #1 CD. That shape collection sold out years ago. New shape collections are all downloadable now.

 

Inklingo Texas Star Variation

To make Cathi’s design, you need a small hexagon (and both halves), a large hexagon (and half), and a star point (and half).

 

Inklingo 3 Sizes

Inklingo gives you a choice of three sizes.

Small

  • Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 (book & CD, requires Windows)
    includes 60° Hexagon 0.75 inch, 1.5 inch, and Star Point 0.75⁄1.5 inch and many other shapes (while supplies last)

Medium

Large

 

Inklingo Pieced Hexagon

If you don’t have the large hexagon, you can use small hexagons to make larger pieced hexagons for a lovely variation.

PDF WORKSHEETS TO DOWNLOAD

The worksheets include a variation using Star Points and 60° Hexagons 1 inch without the 2 inch Hexagons.

The worksheets can be fun to color, but Electric Quilt makes planning a quilt easier and faster.

 

Inklingo EQ Project

DOWNLOAD FREE ELECTRIC QUILT PROJECT FILES

There are many more EQ Project Files to use with Inklingo (including another one for Star Points) listed under the EQ tab on this blog.

IMPORTANT  The info on the EQ notecards is essential to get the sizes to match with Inklingo.

Please see the tips for using Inklingo shapes with EQ under the EQ tab on the blog.

MORE ABOUT STAR POINTS AND  HEXAGONS

There are more notes on the blog to help you design with Star Points, ìncluding counting the shapes, and deciding how much fabric you need. Good stuff! And the blog is searchable.

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Last weekend I started working on a new video.  I have been completely preoccupied with it. Video is very intense work, but I am very excited about this one.

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Please stay tuned.

Linda & Monkey

New to Inklingo? Order and download free shapes and start sewing in the next few minutes. Quick Start (Always FREE.) There are triangles, diamonds, and squares in the free collection—great for dozens of different blocks.

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COTSG Solved – More Inklingo Mystery Quilts

May 2nd, 2013 by

The Case of the Secret Garden (COTSG) Mystery Quilt is not a race, but Inklingo quilters are finishing in record time!

It is a nice feeling to know that there are many Inklingo quilters still quietly sewing A-B-C-D units together. It is relaxing and portable and “even more satisfying than knitting” according to one new Inklingoist.

 

Inklingo COTSG by Glenda in OR

 Glenda’s COTSG in Oregon

Glenda has been sewing all her life and quilting since 1985. She has also become an experienced Inklingoist and blogs about it at My Sewing Site.

I love visiting her blog because she has a variety of Inklingo projects on the go and she shows them in progress. She teaches quilting, so she originally started her blog for her students. She has also shared tips for thimbles and sewing techniques, all illustrated with lots of photos.

Glenda is making some gorgeous POTC blocks (Patchwork of the Crosses).  There is a mini-slide show of them on her blog too. Monkey says she would love it if you left a comment.

 

Inklingo COTSG by Bert in MI

 BERT’S COTSG in Michigan

Bert (short for Alberta) has been an Inklingo quilter for years and she does beautiful work.

I love the pink and burgundy palette she used. Bert made a great choice for the borders too.

 

Inklingo COTSG by Bruce in MN

Bruce’s COTSG in Minnesota

The green was an inspired choice for the border of a garden, don’t you think? Bruce has a wonderful sense of color. He made a fabulous Inklingo Double Wedding Ring Quilt which you can see on the blog.

Bruce does a lot of hand piecing but he says this one is about 50/50 hand and machine. Hand piecing COTSG helped him catch up on episodes of Dr Who and machine sewing gave him confidence sewing curves. (MORE reasons to make COTSG!)

Bruce has been using Inklingo from the beginning, and we are glad he does!

 

COTSG Case of the Secret Garden

If you have a picture of your COTSG quilt top, please let me know if I may show it on the blog. Thank you to Bert, Glenda, and Bruce for giving me permission to show their quilt tops here today.

SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE IN THE COTSG CASE FILE

Now that you have seen so many COTSG quilts, it isn’t a mystery anymore, but it is not too late to start.

COTSG is perfect for Inklingo beginners and when you buy the New York Wheel shapes to print on fabric, I also add the Sunflower Quilt Design Book for you ($20 value, PDF download).

There is not any suspense about whether your blocks will fit together because the cutting and sewing lines are printed on the fabric!

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We have already shown you several other COTSG quilt tops on the blog and there are more to come. Please subscribe to the blog (top of right sidebar) so you don’t miss them.

Coming soon:

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Only a small number of Inklingo quilters have found us on Facebook so far. Monkey has never been able to get his mind around FB, but we keep trying. If you haven’t “liked” Inklingo on Facebook yet, now is a good time. Thank you!

Linda & Monkey

New to Inklingo? Order and download free shapes and start sewing in the next few minutes. Quick Start (Always FREE.) There are triangles, diamonds, and squares in the free collection—great for dozens of different blocks.

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