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300 Inklingo Pieced Hexagons

May 19th, 2013 by

Inklingo 300 Pieced Hexagons (Video)

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.

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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!

Here’s the link to the video on YouTube again.

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

Inklingo for Beginners

Inklingo Quiz – Just for Fun!

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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.

If you don’t want to miss the new video, please enter your email address (right sidebar) to subscribe.

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.

$10 Coupon!  6 Year Anniversary Special on the handbook

Inklingo for Beginners

Inklingo Quiz – Just for Fun!

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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:

Facebook?

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.

$10 Coupon!  6 Year Anniversary Special on the handbook

Inklingo for Beginners

Inklingo Quiz – Just for Fun!

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Inklingo Star Points in Electric Quilt

Apr 29th, 2013 by

Print shapes on fabric with Inklingo

It is obvious that Inklingo makes it easier than ever to sew any design because you have the cutting and sewing lines printed perfectly on the fabric.

This week you can see how Inklingo also makes it easy for you to plan a quilt and decide on how much fabric you need.

Inklingo makes it so fast and easy that you won’t lose interest before your quilt is finished.

With Inklingo, your quilt will not become a UFO!

DESIGNING WITH STAR POINTS

EQ and Inklingo together make it easy to:

  • Perfect the color scheme
  • Count the shapes
  • Buy the right amount of fabric

DON’T HAVE EQ?

Don’t worry. I have prepared worksheets to use for Star Points. Free PDFs will be available on the blog later this week.

In the meantime,  these notes are useful even if you don’t have EQ (yet).

 

Star Point Block for EQ

“MOCK BLOCK”

There are other ways of working with overall designs, but I like to break them into squares or rectangles. It results in extra lines in the quilt layout, but my “mock block” simplifies everything else.

In this example, my “mock block” uses 3 shape collections: 60° Hexagon 1 inch, 60° Hexagon 2 inch, and Star Point 1.0/2.0 inch.

Inklingo makes it easy because all shapes are named with the FINISHED size. That means that the size of a hexagon that lines up with the 2 inch side of the Star Point must be 2 inches too.

(This works for all designs. If you know the finished size of a square, rectangle, triangle, etc., you also know the size of any adjoining shape without doing any math! We think this is very, very cool!)

 

Inklingo Texas Star Variation

Texas Star Variation 84 x 84 inches

This design makes a Queen Size quilt with 42 of my “mock blocks”—7 across and 6 down, as indicated by the dashed lines.

EQ will count the shapes for me, but it will count too many shapes because of the extra lines.

What to do?

I find it easier to count the shapes if I focus on one mock block at a time.

Inklingo Star Point Mock Block Components

COUNT THE SHAPES

Each of my 42 mock blocks is made up of these shapes, so I just need to count once and multiply by 42.

However, I only want to use half hexagons and half star points on the outside edges of the quilt. I want the rest to be whole shapes, not halves.

That means I need to subtract the number of half shapes required for the outside edges and divide the remainder by 2 to get the number of whole shapes required.

Summary:

1. Multiply the number of each shape by the number of mock blocks. (Sample quilt uses 42.)

2. Count the half shapes on the outside edges.

In this example, there are 24 Half Star Points on each side (total 48), 12 House Half Hexagons (1 inch) on each side (total 24), and 14 Other Half Hexagons (2 inch) along the top and bottom edges (28 total).

3. Subtract the half shapes from the totals from Step 1.

4. Divide the remainder by 2 to get the actual number of whole shapes required.

5. Write it down!

 

Inklingo Cheat Sheet

MONKEY’S CHEAT SHEET

I record everything on Monkey’s Cheat Sheet.

This is an easy way to stay organized.

Monkey’s Bonus Tip: Use a pencil, not a pen!

Inklingo Fabric Requirements

FABRIC REQUIREMENTS

The diagrams in the Inklingo Catalogue of Shapes make it easy to see how much fabric I need.

Layout 1 allows me to save time and fabric by printing the Half Star Points AND the mirror image at the same time, so there will be straight grain on the outside edges of the quilt.

In this example, for 48 Star Points for the sides (24 of one and 24 of the mirror image), I could print 3 sheets of 16. There are also other options for printing scraps.

I add this info to Monkey’s Cheat Sheet.

 

Print Half Star Points with Inklingo

The Freezer Paper is 6.75 x 10.5 inches for 16 Half Star Points for the edges.

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.

 

Inklingo Texas Star Variation in EQ

DOWNLOAD FREE ELECTRIC QUILT PROJECT FILES

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

(Notecards for blocks only have notes on the uncolored version.)

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

I hope you like my mock block method. It works for other designs too.

INTRO PRICE

As usual, the new shapes are at a very special intro price—but only for a few more days.

You can download and start sewing right away.

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.

Coming soon:

  • a variation using Star Points and 60° Hexagons 1 inch (without the 2 inch Hexagons)
  • worksheets (just in case you don’t have Electric Quilt yet)
  • another installment of the lesson for the Inklingo Periwinkle Quilt (IPQ)
  • more new shape collections

Please stay tuned. This is going to be a good week.

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

Inklingo for Beginners

Inklingo Quiz – Just for Fun!

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New Inklingo Star Point Shape Collections

Apr 27th, 2013 by

New Star Points!

STAR POINTS

You asked for them! They’re ready!

Star Points were requested by Inklingo quilters who want to make a Texas Star variation designed by Cathi at Quilt Obsession. (Cathi used Inklingo Shape Collection #1, which sold out years ago.)

See Cathi’s design in the header of her blog.

 

Print shapes on fabric with Inklingo

PRINT STAR POINTS ON FABRIC WITH INKLINGO

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.

The results will make you happy too, thanks to the precise shapes with perfect straight grain, crosshairs, matching marks, and stitching lines.

  • Alternate layouts for a choice of straight grain and directional designs.
  • Sew by hand or by machine or a bit of both.
  • Use scraps efficiently or buy exactly what you need.

You can even rescue a quilt you started with English Paper Piecing!

 

Use Star Points with other 60° shapes

This is an Add-On shape collection, so you only pay for the shapes you plan to use.

It is up to you whether you use Star Points with hexagons or diamonds or triangles. When you print shapes with Inklingo, you can relax and be confident that they will fit together perfectly.

 

Inklingo Star Points 2 Sizes

A CHOICE OF TWO SIZES

Star Points are so versatile that we made two sizes!

There is also a smaller Star Point in Inklingo Shape Collection # 3 (0.75/1.5 inch).

MACHINE PIECING

Monkey is well known as a “hand piecing snob” but even he sees the advantages of machine piecing shapes with 1.5, 2, or 3  inch sides.

 

Inklingo Video on YouTube

VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

Monkey’s movie includes our best tips for machine piecing inset seams. We use hexagons in the movie but the same technique works for these Star Points.

 

Inklingo Star Points

INTRO PRICE

As usual, the new shapes are at a very special intro price—but for a few days only.

You can download and start sewing right away.

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.

Coming soon:

  • worksheets for Star Point so you can plan your design
  • Electric Quilt project files for Star Point designs
  • another installment of the lesson for the Inklingo Periwinkle Quilt (IPQ)
  • more new shapes!

We have several more shape collections “almost finished.” (There is always more to do than I think there is.)

What will you design with Inklingo Star Points??

I listen to you. Shapes which are requested frequently move up the list quickly. When you request something, please include the size you want, okay? It makes it much easier for me.

We finally have some sunny spring weather in Burlington and there is a chipmunk begging on the window sill. I hope the sun is shining on you too.

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

Inklingo for Beginners

Inklingo Quiz – Just for Fun!

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