Design Wall Monday

The quilt that has been filling most of my quilting time lately is the Glorious Hexagons quilt. This is a new block of the month group at a local quilt shop. The blocks in the quilt are English paper pieced using patterns from the book The New Hexagon by Katja Marek. Each month we receive the pre-cut paper pieces to make 28 blocks--that's one block almost every day! Here is one of the inspiration quilts.

Garden Hexagons by Liza Prior Lucy

Liza's quilt measures 90" square and has 247 blocks in it. The fabrics she used are all from the Kaffe Fassett Collective.The hexagon blocks all finish at 3" along each side. The number of pieces in each block vary from one to 24. I started out doing traditional EPP for my first couple of blocks, and quickly realized that I will never be able to hand stitch quickly enough to finish 28 blocks each month.

This is my first batch of blocks. I'm thinking that the one near the bottom with the red triangle might be too dark to fit in with the rest, but I will wait and see what else joins the collection. So far I have made four blocks with EPP. Four of the other blocks are each cut from a single fabric. Instead of doing all the blocks with English paper piecing, I have been machine piecing some of the easier blocks. I even found a couple of leftover Stack & Whack blocks from old projects that have been cut down to match the size of the rest of the blocks. I hope to figure out a way to join my hexagon blocks together by machine too.

I am sharing my hexagons with Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times and Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt.

Julie in GA