I am making a "Grandmother's Garden" quilt and I do not have a printer to print out sheets of them. I remember somewhere there were instructions on how to draw a hexagon with only a coin and a pencil...does anyone know how to do this?
Use two pins and a piece of string as a compass..
For the coins Trace the outline of a coin for the centre. Important! Keep the pencil straight up and down thorughout this whole process!
Place the coin carefully on the circle.and outside of it. Trace the coin again so that the circles touch at only one point. Place the coin again outside, so that it touches the circles drawn, and again trace so that the circles touch at only one point. Continue on around the centre circle, until you have drawn the seventh, which should now touch three circles at one point. Using a straight edge, draw a common tangent to two outside circles, and continue around the figure until you have the six-sided figure you want.
Careful attention to the placement of the coin will ensure a good result for the hexagon.
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