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Cutting Hexie's the Easy Way

Used my Cricut to cut out these hexie's for English Paper Piecing. These are for 1.5" hexagons.
Tried using the snap-mat feature but no matter how many angles or what height I was at the feature would not work (sad 😞 day), but at least I have a freshly cut batch of hexagon's to start basting. 





 

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