This one is less of a tutorial, and more of a documented journey into quilt making! After seeing a beautiful tray in liberty covered in hexagonal shapes of liberty fabric I have always wanted to try making one of these quilts myself. I'm not sure I have the patience to make a whole quilt (the first one I made I quickly decided it was going to be 'kids sized') so I might just aim towards a cushion. So here it goes..!
I've been reading around a found a great website here which allows you to print out whatever sized hexagonal shapes you like onto A4 for you to cut out.
I printed the hexagons onto some thin card and then stuck some freezer paper onto the back before cutting out the shapes. I had thought that this would make it easy to iron the shapes onto the fabric and I wouldn't need to stitch down the flaps around the hexagons to save time and stitches... How wrong I was!! The hexagons kept falling off the fabric and it took me much longer than had I stitched down the flaps around the hexagons in the first place! I highly recommend stitching each hexagon first...it may be time consuming but believe me it will save you time in the long run!
I stitched the hexagons together by placing them face to face and whip stitching along the edge, making sure the corners met. When you open out the hexagons you can't see the stitching from the other side. There's brilliant tutorial illustrating how here.
It's starting to come together...
Here's a view of the back.
Here's how far I've got!