This is just my personal preference so it is up to you whether you cut all your fabric in one go or cut your material as you need it.
Note: All your material should be washed and ironed before cutting it and all tracing of templates is done on the wring side of the fabric.
Using the 'material' template I place it on the wrong material and trace around the edges. I then move the template on the material and trace around it again. I try to be as economical with my fabric as I can by laying the templates side by side in much the same way I did for cutting out the card templates.
The quilt is made up of 36 hexagons each with 6 of both the A and B shapes and 6 half hexagons with 3 of both of the A and B shapes.
When cutting the fabrics I need to make sure that I cut enough of each fabric to make up a hexagon.
I am using 12 different colored blue fabrics and 12 different cream fabrics. I plan to make 3 hexagons from each of the colored blue and cream fabric. In addition I will use 6 of the blue and cream fabrics again to make up the half hexagons.
In total I will need to cut a total 234 pieces of blue fabrics using the A template and the same number of pieces using the cream fabrics for the B template.
Templates C and D are made from the same cream fabric which can be a repeat of any of the fabrics already used on the hexagons.
I have started cutting out my fabrics so once I have cut them all out will start tacking the fabric onto the card templates.
