Congratulations to Emily Breclaw on her new book, Adventures in Hexagons!
I was excited to be invited to participate in her blog tour introducing her designs. (This blog tour has been completed.)
PLEASE NOTE Inklingo is mentioned on the cover (Thank you!) and Emily’s book is full of designs that could be made with Inklingo. However, there are no instructions for printing, sewing, or pressing with Inklingo or with freezer paper templates. The good news is that Inklingo provides all that.
VIDEO
If you are new to Inklingo, please watch the video and visit the Welcome to Inklingo page on the website. It will help you get started printing on fabric.
Printing the shapes on fabric (or freezer paper) with Inklingo makes it easy to make all of Emily’s star-inspired designs! (It is the same for hexagons, kites, diamonds, triangles, and ANY OTHER SHAPES—in any book.)
Inklingo shapes are named with the finished size to make it easy. You can look them up in the Inklingo Index of Shapes under the Support & Goodies tab on the website.
For example, some of Emily’s designs use 3 inch hexagons and related shapes and they are all provided in one “shape collection” with all of the info you need for determining yardage requirements, sewing, and pressing.
Some of Emily’s designs use kites and diamonds, which are available on the Main 60 Shape Page in the Shop.
VIDEO – HEXAGONS BY MACHINE
More good news! Emily’s beautiful designs use shapes that are large enough to sew comfortably by machine. That makes the quilts appealing to quilters who don’t do hand piecing too.
With the lines printed on the fabric, it is easy to sew from crosshair to crosshair by machine or by hand. Your choice.
As usual, you can use Inklingo for English Paper Piecing, if that is the method you prefer.
There are more videos on the website, including the Main Hexagon Page.
When you have the shapes printed on fabric, you don’t need templates!
There are a few shapes in a couple of the quilts that are not Inklingo-able. We always prefer to print the shapes on fabric, of course, but when you can’t, I think you will love using Inklingo to print freezer paper templates without seam allowances.
Freezer paper templates are perfect for fussy cutting too.
Emily also invited another Inklingo quilter, Cathi at Quilt Obsession, to the blog tour.
Please subscribe to get an email (top of the right sidebar), to see what we’re working on now.
If you don’t win, you can buy the book from Emily! It is also available on Amazon but it is especially nice to support a first-time author, don’t you think?
Thank you for visiting. Good luck in the draw!
Linda & Monkey
I love hexies! I just finished a bed throw themed “Sky, Earth and below” and a table runner using up fabrics with roses from a table runner I once made for my daughter.
I love inklingo because I won’t have to do EPP the old fashioned way any more. I love running stitches and freezer paper templates.
Yours, Birgitt from Germany
LOVE Hexies! Never thought I would. Avoided them for YEARS. Now I can’t stop sewing them. Go Figure.
Lovely to have a book of beautiful ideas but even better to have Inklingo to make them a reality.
Well isn’t this a nice little contest.
Sounds like the book and Inklingo are made for each other!
How exciting! I love my hexies!
Enjoy working with EPP – made several quilts over the years. Like to get different ideas. Thanks. From northern Iowa.
Hi, I have bought some things from inklingo but not used them. I am terrible about understanding computer directions. I hove, love hexagon quilts and have made 3 large ones so far. All hand pieced. Would love to own your book and thank for for writing it.
I LOVE inklingo and am looking forward to my POTC project when I retire! (Coming up soon)
Congratulations on your book, Emily!
I can’t wait to see it.
Utterly fantastic! Love hand stitching hexies.
Love sewing Hexies!!! Especially with Inklingo, it makes it sooo much easier to stitch, and doing it by hand makes for portability as well as sitting in your easy chair while watching (listening to) TV. Would love to win this book for more inspiration.
I am new to Inklingo, but really enjoy printing on fabric instead of using paper templates. I really appreciate all the help and sewing tips that Inklingo presents.
Emily Breclaw’s book looks very interesting and fun.
Thanks so much.
Joy Loesch
What a great Give-a-Way!! Hexies and Inklingo make for beautiful quilts and easy sewing. Congratulations on your new book Emily. Your quilts are beautiful!!
Love the savings of by printing on fabric. Genius.
Looks like a wonderful book with some exciting quilts.
As a quilter who loves accuracy, the Inklingo program/app would make my life much easier! I would love to try it!
What a winning combination, hexagons and inklingo. A quilter’s dream come true!!!!
This looks like so much fun.
love them, great quilts
I am loving my hexies. Even though I prefer to do them by hand I still love using INKLINGO. This new book looks marvelous! I love all the new patterns hitting the market with an adventurous attitude with hexagons and their companion shapes. Bravo. New ways to use a old and familiar block. Wonderful way to preserve our quilt heritage.
Love Inklingo and the book looks FUN!
I love hexagons, and would love to see her designs
Beautiful quilt designs! Thanks for the great giveaway!
How marvellous!!
Cool! I love the designs I find on this website. It would be fun to win
Love piecing hexies and other 60 degree shapes! thanks for a chance at the book and some new fun on inklingo!
I’ve been wanting to try some hand piecing. Hope to use Inklingo for my next handwork project. Hexagons are a great choice
I think it would be fun to use the information in Hexagon Book and the Inklingo patterns to print them out. Using both would give good info. along with ease of cutting out the fabric an sewing.
I have already ordered the book. I have several hexagon projects going. I would love gift certificate from Inklingo!
I am just getting started with hexies and anything new and exciting like this is going to grab my attention. I have far to go, but I am loving the journey! Thanks, Kim
There are limitless possibilities with hexies, hours of quilting fun . Can’t wait to see what this book has inside!
I absolutely love working with hexies! Thank you for the opportunity to win!!
Hexagons and Inklingo are made for each other. I have tried them other ways, but this is the easiest way to accomplish what I am after. Presently, I am stuck on another Inklingo shape.
Have been thinking about starting hexies – this book looks like great inspiration! Here’s hoping I’m the lucky winner!!
The Adventures in Hexagons book by Emily Breclaw would make a great addition to my library! I’m sure I would find multiple projects I’d love to make using the inklingo methods.
I hope this book will produce many new Inklingoists :-). I love Emily’s designs, so I would like to win an electronic book!
I have been using Inklinko for some years and it is fabulous and now that I see your book it is going to be a big help with new ideas
Looks like great inspiration for Inklingo projects!
I have fallen in love with hexies lately and would love this book.
I was going to make my next quilt a hexagon quilt.
Oh my. Looks like a lovely book! This might be the one to finally get me from looking and wishing, to actually making!
I love hexies.
need to start a hexi project
I’ve been obsessed with hexis for years! Thank god for Inklingo!
Love my emails from you would love to win the book
I love hexies.
I need to start again. I did enjoy seeing the patterns coming out under my hands.
Hexagons were the first shape I hand pieced. They were HUGE, from scrap fabric, and I whip stitched them. If only I’d had inklingo back then. I still love hexagons.
Absolutely love working with hexies! They are a great mental escape after a long day at work. Always love & appreciate new ideas!
I just visited inklingo for the first time this week. I like what I see.