Elongated hexagon quilt

. Now, where to start? Maybe with the quilt top: And so I have almost finished (except for the inset triangles along the edges) sewin...

The elongated hexagons are working up nicely!

I have been trying to work on Summer Circles here and there and it just does not seem to moving very fast. Of course as it gets larger it takes more time and pieces to circle the center. I am going to keep going and will hopefully finish it by ....? I do not want to commit to a date so I have made a diagram of the size I am shooting for. It is not to late to get started. We still have starter kits available here. Summer Circles Approximate Finished Size 42" x 49"

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Elongated hexagon charm quilt from my Civil War Homefront reproduction collection for Moda. Cindy at the Busy Thimble was hand quilting it in this photo. Hexagonal shapes tessellate well, filling the plane with one shape. It doesn't matter whether hexagons have equal sides or some sides longer than others. Two basic elongated hexagons are found in patchwork. BlockBase #172 and #173 were described as coffin shapes by Averil Colby in her book on British patchwork. Here's a page from my…

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Sometimes I'm just not in a hurry to finish a project. Case in point: my elongated hexagons which I began almost 20 years ago! I think i...

Elongated hexagon