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Simple Hexagon Tessellation Patchwork is traditionally a technique for using up old clothing and textiles. The shapes are striking yet are achieved with very few simple techniques.We have used just 2 colours to make this flower pattern, but make your patchwork vibrant and personal by mixing and matching colours and prints. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Using the guidelines on the reverse of this sheet, trace on to scrap paper 7 hexagons, and cut out. Pin your paper template onto your chosen fabric. Cut around the template, leaving roughly 1.5 cm from the paper edge. Fold the excess fabric edges over on to the paper template, and secure in place with large tacking stitches, sewing through the fabric and the paper template. Repeat for all hexagons. Starting with 2 hexagons, place right sides (fabric facing up) together. Using a double thread, with a knot in the end, push the needle through the edges of both hexagons. Bring the needle back to the side you started from and repeat the stitch. You will start to make diagonal stitches – this is called an over-stitch. Once you have sewn 1 side of the hexagon open it out flat, so you can see where to place your next hexagon. Working around a central hexagon, start sewing on the remaining hexagons with an over-stitch, as in step 3. As you add more shapes, you will need to bend the paper templates so you can sew all the sides together. Once all your hexagons are joined into a flower, use an iron to press over the whole shape. Then remove the tacking stitches by cutting the threads and pulling out. (The ironing should keep all the edges in shape and flat) Katherine May: Sustainable Textiles and Facilitation. www.katherinemay.com Turn over your flower and remove the papers, pulling slightly if any of your over-stitching has gone through the paper. You now have your first patchwork flower. This pattern is called Grandmother’s Flower Garden but there are many other patterns you can find online and in resource books. Patchwork can be used for lots of things. Make 2 flower shapes, sew on top of each other and stuff with wadding for a pin cushion or lavender for a pillow. Keep going and make lots of flowers that can be joined together to make a quilt – get your friends and family to help!

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Page 1: Simple Hexagon Tessellation - Crafts · PDF fileSimple Hexagon Tessellation Patchwork is traditionally a technique for using up old clothing and textiles. The shapes are striking yet

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

Using the guidelines on the reverse of this sheet, trace on to scrap paper 7 hexagons, and cut out. Pin your paper template onto your chosen fabric. Cut around the template, leaving roughly 1.5 cm from the paper edge.

Fold the excess fabric edges over on to the paper template, and secure in place with large tacking stitches, sewing through the fabric and the paper template. Repeat for all hexagons.

Starting with 2 hexagons, place right sides (fabric facing up) together. Using a double thread, with a knot in the end, push the needle through the edges of both hexagons. Bring the needle back to the side you started from and repeat the stitch. You will start to make diagonal stitches – this is called an over-stitch.

Once you have sewn 1 side of the hexagon open it out flat, so you can see where to place your next hexagon.

Working around a central hexagon, start sewing on the remaining hexagons with an over-stitch, as in step 3.

As you add more shapes, you will need to bend the paper templates so you can sew all the sides together.

Once all your hexagons are joined into a flower, use an iron to press over the whole shape. Then remove the tacking stitches by cutting the threads and pulling out. (The ironing should keep all the edges in shape and flat)

Katherine May: Sustainable Textiles and Facilitation. www.katherinemay.com

Turn over your flower and remove the papers, pulling slightly if any of your over-stitching has gone through the paper.

You now have your first patchwork flower. This pattern is called Grandmother’s Flower Garden but there are many other patterns you can find online and in resource books.

Patchwork can be used for lots of things. Make 2 flower shapes, sew on top of each other and stuff with wadding for a pin cushion or lavender for a pillow. Keep going and make lots of flowers that can be joined together to make a quilt – get your friends and family to help!