How to Draw Lucy Boston’s Hexagon for POTC

how to draw hexagons for Patchwork of the Crosses

Make Your Own POTC Templates!

Of course, if you have the POTC book, you can trace the hexagon and square on freezer paper. Even better—you can print the hexagons on freezer paper if you have an Inklingo POTC shape collection PDF. (Choice of sizes.)

how to draw a hexagon for Lucy Boston POTC

It’s as simple as one, two, three. Use a pencil and lined paper or graph paper to get the angles right.

Lucy Boston’s Patchwork of the Crosses uses a 1-inch square and a 1-inch 90° hexagon. Start with a square to draw any size POTC hexagon for freezer paper templates.

Freezer Paper Templates for Fussy Cutting POTC

This video shows why two-part freezer paper templates work better than acrylic templates for fussy cutting. You can have as many as you want in the next few minutes.

Monkey says You’re welcome!

A free PDF shows block sizes for different hexagon sizes, too. It is on the Main Lucy Boston Page.

Print hexagons for POTC on fabric or paper

I hope you will share photos of your POTC blocks with quilters in the Facebook POTC group. There is lots of eye candy there!

Thank you for visiting!

Linda

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