Blue & White Hexagon Quilt

This is the start of my Blue and White Hexagon Quilt. I have used six fabrics plus the white. The hexagons are 1 inch (that is the length of each edge). I have calculated I need 68 flower blocks and each block is a different combination of fabrics but each of the six fabrics have 11 blocks with that fabric as the outside edge of the flower plus I need another random 2 blocks. Make sense?? I have drawn up a fabric combination listing with each fabric allocated a letter of the alphabet to make it easier for me.

I will use a total of 2168 hexagons and need to make, in addition to the flower blocks, a whopping 742 whole, 4 corner and 130 half hexagons in white fabric - this is so I will end up with a straight edge.

Out of 5 x 42 inches of fabric I will get 38 hexagons - do the math and you get an idea of the cost of this project - so luckily it is a long term one!


Hexagon quilts are so portable and don't take too much brain power to put together.

I don't baste through the card and fabric, just the fabric and do a back stitch in each corner fold - that way I won't have to remove miles of basting thread later on - it will stay in the quilt - and the paper templates just pop out so I can reuse them. I do need to leave the edge ones in though - at least until I have joined them to another hexagon - this keeps it stable while sewing. But...it means I need an awful lot of paper hexagons. Happy Quilting I say!