Here are the next five Glorious Hexagons.

#27 Victoria

This is one of my least favorite block designs for the direction in which I want to take my quilt. In the first month or two I felt compelled to make every block presented to me, and so I made Victoria, and I made her more than once. Liza Lucy, one of the creators of the Glorious Hexagon project did a post about how she uses scraps to create her Victoria blocks. That idea is very impressive, and if I were doing a quilt with KFC (Kaffe Fasset Collection) fabrics it would be a great way to use up odd pieces of fabric. I do eventually hope to do a KFC Glorious Hexagon quilt, so I will keep that little trick in mind for when I do.

#27 Victoria

For this Victoria I tried to create a more dimensional look with light, medium, and dark horses to create a block that appears to be illuminated from the upper left.

#31 Jacqui

Jacqui blocks are like Judy blocks except that the hexagons are divided in half to create half hexagon shapes. Rather than pairing two different cuts of fabric together to create the pieced hexagons I chose to invert pairs of the same cut and invert one side so they fit together. I think it makes an interesting effect.

#31 Jacqui

In this Jacqui two different different cuts are pairs together to create the hexagons. Additionally, the hexagons are turned so the section of blue and white horse mane creates an echo of the blue and white section of horse mane that appear in the outter diamonds. The central hexagon is once again pieced from diamonds.

#1 Marie

Marie is a block composed of large shapes. There are only six pieces in this block. Each shape is repeated only three times, so this is a good block to create from a three layer stack. The manes of the horses in the hexagons match up with the manes of the horses in the diamonds. This is by design.

It is time to reveal the next five Glorious Hexagons.

#13 Judy

This is a modified Judy which uses three diamonds to piece the central hexagon of the block. I used the large horse head fabric for the hexagons and selected a solid area to cut for the solid diamonds. I like to piece the central hexagon of a Judy so it is radially symmetrical.

#13 Judy

Again I pieced the central hexagon shape from diamonds. The hexagons are selected from an area of the large horse head fabric that focused on the decorative overlapping of horse manes. I wanted to create an abstract feel for this block. Without knowing the fabric there is no way that you would think that this block has anything to do with horses.

You will see many more Judy blocks before this project is done. Each of the three packets so far has included enough pieces to make five Judy blocks. It looks as if that trend is likely to continue.

#32 Marilyn

This block uses the large horse head fabric for the central diamond. The remaining outside shapes were cut from the background area of the medallion fabric. This is my first use of the medallion fabric.

#32 Marilyn

This Marilyn utilizes the running horses fabric for the central diamond. It uses the gold bird fabric for the outside shapes. I was surprised that I was able to isolate two birds for each of these pieces without having to break up the shape and piece it.

#32 Marilyn

This Marilyn uses the bird fabric with the black background for the central diamond. The running horses fabric is used for the outside shapes. What I like about this block is the way the bodies of the black horses appear to emanate from the central diamond. If I were doing this block again I would cut the top and bottom pieces so they contain more of the black horse bodies so they would be more integrated with the central diamond as are the pieces on the left and the right.

The Month 2 packet contained pieces for three Marilyn blocks. These blocks go together quickly, but I don’t really like them. I am noticing a distinct preference on my part for blocks that allow for the creation of designs with radial symmetry. It is possible that I may decide to “boycott” certain blocks in the future based on this preference.

The numbers above are not the numbers that correspond with the names of the blocks in The New Hexagon book. They represent the order in which I have completed the blocks in the series. I have actually completed my 43rd block, but up until now I have been so busy stacking, cutting, basting, and stitching that I have presented only the first 10 of those blocks. I feel as if my blog has been ignored, for which I apologize. I hope to remedy that with some regular posts on the Glorious Hexagon project, and also on The Farmer’s Wife Quilt, which has become a distant memory to me now.

After careful consideration I have decided that the best way for me to proceed with the unveiling of my finished Glorious Hexagon blocks is to present five blocks at a time. I’ll make one post per week devoted to the individual blocks. That will allow me to stay a bit ahead of the game so I can continue to post with consistency. An additional advantage to this approach is that I will gain a bit of aesthetic distance on each block before I actually blog about. Perhaps this will help me to find something new to say about the blocks.

Before we get to the blocks I would like to say that one of the reasons my posts have been so sparse lately is that I feel as if I have found a new warm home on the internet in the Glorious Hexagons Facebook Group. The people there are very supportive and it is a really open atmosphere that allows for sharing of thoughts as well as images. It is a little smaller than the Farmer’s Wife Facebook Group, and so that is probably why the admins don’t feel the need to prohibit blog links and slightly off comment posts about previous hexie projects. I guess this fish likes a smaller pond. Now I understand when people say that they too busy with Instagram to blog. The nearly instant feedback is definitely addictive.

Anyway, here are the blocks:

#13 Judy

#13 Judy

I decided to modify the Judy block by using three one inch diamond shapes for the central hexagon. It gives a rather creepy feeling to the block. It also pulls the rust color into the center.

#13 Judy

#13 Judy

This is another Judy that is modified with a pieced central hexagon. This works well not only to create a symmetrically circular effect as in the Judy above it, but it also works well when I want to provide a solid center pieced from portions of the large horse head print. What is nice about using the solid sections of the print is that the tones are very subtly gradated as you can see above.

What I like most about this Judy is that I deliberately searched for an area of fabric with the white horse mane to use for the diamond shape, and I managed to line it up with the white mane portion in the hexagons which makes the mane look as if it is flying away.

#1 Marie

Marie is a block with large pieces that works well to show off the horse heads in the large horse head print in the collection. This block will also work well with the panel fabrics when I finally start to use them.

I managed to score twelve of the above panels, which should provide a great deal of variety. I have created a six layer stack of the two segments pictured above and will probably create three layer stacks as well to use with the blocks that use larger pieces.

Next week I will be unveiling the next five blocks. But if you are impatient you can always join the Facebook Group for Glorious Hexagons to see the blocks presented as soon as they are completed.