Happy Valentine’s Day!
I fell hard in love with hexagon quilts in the fall, and I’ve been working slowly but steadily (is there any other way to make hexes?) on a bed-sized quilt.
(1% of the blocks I’m working on.)
And while I’m pleased with my decision to make a quilt out of 100 appliqued hex flowers, different variations on hexagons continue to fascinate me.
My alma mater used to celebrate “Sex Week” on the week of Valentine’s Day, and, in the spirit of being true to my school, I’m hereby kicking of Hex Week at A Quilt A Day. Check back for quilts that feature hexagons, but go way beyond the traditional Grandmother’s Flower Garden configuration.
If you want to get in on the fun, I highly recommend making or buying freezer-paper templates, like the ones I use from sewmuchbetter56. These will fuse to your fabric and let you form the hexagons almost as if they were yoyos – no sewing through paper means no hurting fingers! Searching online for “freezer paper hexagons” will bring up a number of tutorials that will explain what I mean.
As far as instructions, I suggest reading through several tutorials, and picking the one that strikes you as most intuitive. It worked for me!