Hexagons Made Easy
Oct 18, 2009 Quilting
Recently, I discovered Red Pepper Quilts and Half-hexagon Quilts on flickr. As a girl with a lot of left over scraps, I saw a lot of potential with this pattern.
So putting my brain to work, I drew up a template to work with my scraps (2.5″ wide). I decided to just use my own template (versus the one on the flickr group) to make sure it worked with my scraps. After watching a few episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, I had a nice pile of blue and green half hexagons.
Now I never intended to make a quilt wholly out of hexagons. I didn’t want to spend the emotional energy that would be necessary to keep track of all the rows and columns of half hexagons. Instead, I made half-hexagon blocks. In fact I made nine just like this one.
Then I turned the nine blocks into this quilt.
So far I’m happy with how it’s turning out. Now I just need to be inspired with an amazing border, and it will be done. Of course this means, I’m stuck. The quilt needs a border. I have some scraps, mostly 2.5″ squares.
Yet the little squares don’t excite me. I need something else. Does anybody have any ideas?
