{"id":44819,"date":"2019-01-23T07:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44819"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T02:00:05","slug":"a-few-more-half-hexie-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-few-more-half-hexie-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few More Half Hexie Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44805\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"White half hexie stars - January 2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474943036464360667729609621769-1200x823.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White half hexie stars &#8211; January 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In between everything else I have going on, I have been working on the half hexie stars. I need about a million more stars, so I just work on them whenever I don&#8217;t have any other handwork pressing.<\/p>\n<p>I especially need white background stars so I have been concentrating on those fabrics lately.<\/p>\n<p>One problem I had with this batch was matching the centers. WonderClips, which has worked perfectly well before, were not working. They didn&#8217;t seem to be clipping strongly enough. My pieces kept slipping, making the centers off. Some were just a smidge. Others had to be ripped out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44806\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474944201034443349547625662288.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474944201034443349547625662288-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Half Hexie Star - matching centers\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474944201034443349547625662288-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474944201034443349547625662288-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15474944201034443349547625662288-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Hexie Star &#8211; matching centers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alison saw my double point pins at the last Sew Day. Someone in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/sisters-retreat-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosalie Dace<\/a>&#8216;s class said I had to have them, so I bought some. Alison mentioned to me that they were for matching up points. I don&#8217;t usually have a problem in regular piecing, but since I was having a problem with the half hexies, I thought I would try them. They are not ideal, but they help a lot. You can see from the photo that I use clips and the double point pins. I am now using two pins and a clip. This strategy seems to be working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between everything else I have going on, I have been working on the half hexie stars. I need about a million more stars, so I just work on them whenever I don&#8217;t have any other handwork pressing. I especially need white background stars so I have been concentrating on those fabrics lately. One problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-few-more-half-hexie-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Few More Half Hexie Stars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[477],"tags":[209,504,22],"class_list":["post-44819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-half-hexie-star","tag-hand-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53591,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819\/revisions\/53591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}