Here are Glorious Hexagons 121 through 130

#54 Kim

This Kim features two of the horses from the Large Horse Head fabric.

#54 Kim

With this Kim I start getting some real milage out of the manes on the Large Horse Head fabric. I am utilizing my technique of carefully placing the template to make the manes intersect with the center and sides of the hexagon.

#54 Kim

This Kim is another propellor block.

#9 Doris

This Doris focuses on one of the heads from the Large Horse Head fabric.

#9 Doris

This Doris focuses on one horse from the Large Horse Head fabric. It also makes optimal use of one of the decorative manes as a design element.

#9 Doris

This Doris focuses on one horse from the Large Horse Head fabric. A very interesting design element emerges from the center as these pieces come together.

#2 Carol

This Carol focuses on one horse from the Large Horse Head fabric. Once again interesting things happen in the center of the block. Even though every Carol block can be put together three ways, in this case assembly was a no brainer. I had to have the little light blue star in the center.

#2 Carol.

This Carol will bring a welcome touch of blue to the finished quilt. It was actually hard though to decide which way to assemble these pieces. With three good options available I wished I could have made all three.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the first section of the panel fabric. I really love the dark triangular element in the center of this block along with the eyes.

I decided to put together a three layer stack of both sections, and to cut nothing but Kim and Doloris blocks from the stacks until the stacks became exhausted. The next sixteen blocks you see will be from the first section of the panel fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the first section of the panel fabric. More than a few people in the Glorious Hexagons Facebook group thought that it looked like some strange creature with a large eye and two legs. Interesting. I didn’t see that until it was drawn to my attention. The above two hexagons are two of my favorite so far. There is very little blue in the panel.

I promised you more hexagons from the first section of the panel, but you are just going to have to wait a couple days to see the next ten Glorious Hexagons.

Here are Glorious Hexagons 111 through 120.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry uses the rust mane fabric for the outer shapes and the Large Horse Head fabric for the inner diamonds. This is one of my favorite blocks. I like the way the hue of the inner diamonds matches the rust of the mane fabric. The circular motif was a happy accident.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the large horse head fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the large horse head fabric. I focused on the wavy white mane when making my selection for this block.

#48 Jeannie

The outer shapes of this Jeannie were cut from the large horse head fabric. The inner shapes were cut from the rust mane fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the Large Horse Head fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the Large Horse Head fabric. I managed to get an airplane propellor effect with the horse manes. This effect was accidental on this block, but I learned how to repeat it, and you will see it in some blocks coming up in the future.

#13 Judy

This Judy was cut primarily from the second section of the panel fabric. The exception being the diamonds along the outside which were cut from the neck of one of the horses on the Large Horse Head fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut form the Large Horse Head fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the Large Horse Head fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the Large Horse Head fabric.

Here are hexagons 101 through 110.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut from the second section of the panel fabric. The mottled gray segment of the pattern lends an organic feel to an otherwise mechanical design.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut from the second section of the panel fabric as well. I like the way the mottled gray creates a circle near the center of the block. I might use this hexagon for the center of a star using triangles of the green mottled fabric for triangles making up the outer portion of the star. I am planning to have a number of these stars scattered across the surface of the finished quilt.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut from the running horses fabric. I like the star shape formed at the center of the block. The star is made from the mane of the rust colored horse.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut from the running horses fabric as well. The central motif resembles a Celtic design element.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut from the jumping horses fabric. I am not at all satisfied with the way it turned out. I will probably put this block on a reject pile and use it to experiment with the joining of blocks using triangles. I have other blocks that are not favorites that I can use in the experiment.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut from the running horses fabric. I think that the central light gray area calls too much attention to itself. However, I think that it may work well enough with the other blocks when it is in with a crowd of blocks. When it gets into the final quilt the light center may not be so dominant. I did learn something from this block. Don’t isolate a very small contrasting bit of color in the center of a Doris block. I was sorry I did.

#35 Sharon

The central diamonds of this Sharon were cut from the rust mane fabric. The outer diamonds were cut from the large horse head fabric. I like the way the rust fabric coordinates with certain portions of the large horse head fabric. I also like the way the eyes of the horse appear very close to the border of the block. On of the things I like about this block is that the two different shapes are so close in hue and value that the block appears to be more of a solid from a distance. It will be a good place for the eye to rest from the busy blocks.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry is cut from the second section of the panel fabric. Both of these shapes were cut from areas that were left over from a six layer stack after other shapes were cut. In a sense these shapes are cut from “throwaway” pieces of fabric. I would not have chosen to make these cuts except that the fabric had been so depleted of interesting areas, and it was necessary to cut the shapes that still fit.

#33 Kerry

The inner diamonds of this Sharon were cut from the rust mane fabric. The outer half hexagon shapes were cut from the large horse head fabric. Here again we see how well the rust mane fabric coordinates with certain portions of the large horse head fabric. I like the way the blue is brought into this design along the edge of the block. I have a limited amount of rust mane fabric left, and may need to order more of it for this project.

#38 Sonja

The outer shapes of this Sonja were cut from the large horse head fabric. This was planned as a Kerry block, but there was not an area large enough to cut the half hexagons needed. So I pieced the half hexagon shapes from diamonds and triangles. The central diamonds were cut from the second portion of the panel fabric.

First let me say that I believe that the way to get the most out of your fabric when fussy cutting is to create layer stacks. That is what I have been doing for awhile now. That being said, I didn’t start out with layer stacks. When I first started to fussy cut I used a single layer of yardage and eyeballed each repeat. That took a great deal of time and effort. Plus I was left with pieces of fabric resembling Swiss cheese that were hard to manipulate. It is much harder to search the surface of a long piece of yardage for six identical portions than it is to manipulate a stack one sixth the size and cut only on piece.

Here we have a piece of fabric from the Laurel Burch Embracing Horses collection that I have been using for my Glorious Hexagons. I started off isolating repeats of either densely packed circles or triangles. After that I moved on to isolating single circles or triangles. Then I tried isolating more empty areas of the pattern. The resultant Swiss cheese wonder appear above.

I wanted to cut some 3 inch triangles from this fabric without regard to the pattern. I was going to just treat it as a tone on tone, albeit a fairly contrasty tone on tone. To my displeasure there were no areas large enough to cut a 3 inch triangle. I decided to cut 1.5 inch triangles and piece them to make 3 inch triangles. I managed to find a great many areas of the fabric that were large enough for the 1.5 inch triangle template.

 

I managed to cut a great many of these 1.5 inch shapes.

Here are a few of them basted and read to assemble.

I actually had enough shapes to make six 3 inch pieced triangles with a few pieces remaining. By this point fabric was taking on a “holier than though” attitude. Yet it seemed to have enough life left in it to yield up some even smaller shapes. I searched for the smallest shape I could find, the 1 inch triangle template, and cut what I could.

Here are the results. These pieces will come in handy for blocks that require small triangles.

Trust me when I say that there is nothing of value left here. The remaining scraps were tossed without regret.

Rest assured that the next time I use this fabric for fussy cutting a layer stack will be involved.

Here are Glorious Hexagons 91 through 100.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was cut entirely from the running horse fabric. I wanted to put an emphasis on the dark horses. The same horse is used for the outer and the inner shapes.

#38 Sonja

This Sonja emphasizes the lighter horses of the running horse fabric and uses some of the darker cuts of the yellow rust fabric.

#48 Jeannie

I love the yellow star in the middle of this Jeannie. The outer shapes appear to be pieced because of the pattern of the fabric.

#48 Jeannie

I love the central star on this Jeannie and the way it works with the light colored horses of the running horses fabric.

#48 Jeannie

Jeannie has just a wonderful star in its center. The stars in Jeannie always manage to look good.

#52 Katja

Katja is not an easy block to make. This one was cut entirely from the second section of the panel fabric.

#13 Judy

This Judy brings the rust colored mane fabric into the mix. This block also uses the running horse fabric for the hexagons. The lower left outer diamond is not facing the same way as the others. Did you notice? Neither did I. Fixing that is something I will get around to some day.

#2 Carol

This Carol was cut from the second section of the panel fabric. It is very mechanical and appears to be made out of more pieces than the six triangles that are used because of the geometric design of the fabric from which it is cut.

#2 Carol

This Carol is also made from the second section of the panel fabric. This block looks less mechanical because of the gentle curves.

#100 Carol

This Carol was also made from the second section of the panel fabric. Because of the cut of the pattern, this Carol has a bit of a Katja feel to it.

Here are Glorious Hexagons numbers 81 through 90.

#13 Judy

This Judy is cut from the panel fabric. I am not actually sure from which portion the cuts were made. Given that most of the blocks below are from the second section of the panel fabric, that is probably what was used.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was cut from the second portion of the panel fabric.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was also cut from the second portion of the panel fabric.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was also cut from the second portion of the panel fabric.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was also cut from the second portion of the panel fabric. This is one of my favorites.

#54 Kim

This Kim was cut from the second portion of the panel fabric.

#23 Dawn

The outer shapes of this Dawn were cut from the jumping horses fabric. The central hexagon was cut from the  yellow rust fabric with dots and triangles.

#23 Dawn

The outer shapes of this Dawn were cut from the jumping horses fabric. The central hexagon was cut from the blue fabric with dots and triangles.

#38 Sonja

This Sonja is cut from the jumping horses fabric and the blue fabric with dots and triangles. The Sonja block is a close relative of the Dawn and Kerry blocks.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was cut entirely from the running horses fabric.

The next ten Glorious Hexagons will be coming very soon.

Here are Glorious Hexagons numbers 71 through 80.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the border of the panel fabric. I cut these pieces from a six layer stack. Therefore, there are two Kim blocks like this in my collection. The same is true for the Kim blocks that immediately follow which were all cut from the panel fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the second section of the panel fabric.

#54 Kim

This Kim is also cut from the second section of the panel fabric.

#54 Kim

The second section of the panel fabric once again is featured in this Kim.

#2 Carol

This Carol is also made from the second section of the panel fabric.

#13 Judy

This Judy is made from the second portion of the panel fabric. I am on a roll with that stack. The central hexagon has been pieced from three diamonds. Notice the horse ears in the six hexagons that make up the bulk of the block. The green diamonds that make up the outer shapes were cut from the background section of the panel. They were chosen to visually extend the green portion of the hexagons.

#13 Judy

This Judy uses the second portion of the panel fabric for six of the hexagons that make up the block. The central hexagon is made of diamonds cut from the background of the bird fabric with birds placed on a yellow background. The outer diamonds also come from that bird fabric.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut from the border of the second section of the panel fabric. It has a mechanical look to it. I am not entirely happy with the way the pieces aligned in the center. The white dots are not exactly placed. This may have come about through a slight misalignment of the fabric in the stack. This hexagon may make its way onto a reject pile to be used in the making of small projects to test various sashing methods. I am also considering an assembly of abstract blocks as a separate project.

#9 Doris

This Doris is also cut from the border of the second section of the panel fabric. It also is very mechanical in feel. It is a bit more wonky than the previous block due to the angled placement of the template during cutting.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry was also cut from the second section of the panel fabric. This is one of my favorite blocks. I like the way that the hue of the background of the bird pieces nearly matches the central diamond fabric. this allows the two shapes to meld together. It also creates a central shape that is different from a hexagon.

All of the blocks in this post are derived from the second section of the panel fabric. Therefore, I decided to post that section here. See if you can find the individual cuts that make up the hexagons.

I am considering a small wall hanging composed entirely of hexagons from the panel fabric. I might place a panel on the back of of that piece.

The next ten Glorious Hexagons are coming very soon.

Showing only five hexagons at a time is not helping me to catch my blog up with my actual production of hexagons. I have, therefore, decided to start posting ten hexagons at a time in an effort to bring my blog in line with reality.

So here are the next ten hexagons, numbers 61 through 70.

#2 Carol

This carol is cut from the panel fabric. Those are horse ears. Yes. The horses on the panel are that big! I love the abstract design that these ears create.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut from the panel fabric. Tilting the shape to cut in a wonky way off the border design yielded some interesting results.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the large horse head fabric. I am not sure that I like the emphasis on the large yellow shapes. These yellow shapes create a lot of contrast in the block. Maybe the block will play better in the finished piece than I think.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry is cut from the panel fabric. There is an area of that fabric with a really nice blue horse. The Kerry block is a close relative of the Dawn block. You could say they are sisters.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry is cut from the same area of the panel fabric as the Kerry above it.

#54 Kim

This Kim is cut from the large horse head fabric. Someone in the Facebook group said that this block reminded her of mice. I would not have thought of that, but I can see it now that it is drawn to my attention.

#33 Kerry

This Kerry is cut from the panel fabric. It is cut from my very favorite horse head on the panel, and so far this is one of my favorite blocks.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut from the panel fabric. It is very abstract. Once again the fabric pattern does the heavy lifting for this block to create a very interesting abstract block.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut from the panel fabric. I used the print of the fabric to divide the kite shapes in half for an interesting effect. This block has a great deal of contrast between the warm and the cool halves of the kites.

#9 Doris

This Doris was cut from the panel fabric. I will admit that I cut it to make use of a fairly large portion of the layer stack that was left behind after I had harvested more interesting cuts. This block is not a favorite. I am not even sure if I like it at all. This block may make its way onto a reject pile from which I will try to make something of interest with coordinating solids. If I use solids to create modern areas of negative space it would be quite modern and perhaps even be an interesting challenge.

Here are the next five Glorious Hexagons.

#35 Sharon

This Sharon uses the panel fabric for the outer circles. This is a modified Sharon because the central shapes are composes of a large hexagon with equilateral triangles in place of the usual diamond shapes. This block actually has a name of it’s own. It is a #29 Bev. I didn’t know that at the time I made the block and I shared it on Facebook under the name Sharon. Now I feel no need to change the name as I share it here. There are a few blocks in the collection that are very closely related as are Sharon and Bev. Another example is the pair of Dawn and Kerry.

#35 Sharon

This Sharon is entirely composed of diamonds cut from the panel fabric. I like the way some of the triangles in the fabric pattern create a circular motif near the center of the block. I also like the division of the outer diamonds into halves due to the pattern of the fabric.

#35 Sharon

This Sharon is another Bev is disguise. I like the way the very large horse heads in the panel deliver some design elements of interest such as these eyes used here.

#9 Doris

This Doris is cut entirely from the panel fabric. This fabric holds great potential for the creation of abstract looking blocks. I really love how quickly the Doris blocks come together. They are made up of only one shape and have only six pieces, yet they can be just as rich in design as blocks created with a greater number of pieces. The fabric does all of the heavy lifting here.

#2 Carol

This Carol is cut entirely from the panel fabric. There are portions of the fabric with beige and blue tones that appear nowhere else in the collection.

Here are the next five Glorious Hexagons.

#35 Sharon

This Sharon was cut from the jumping horses fabric. I used the same hoses for the inside pieces and also the outside pieces.

#14 Willa

This Willa was cut from the two bird fabric

s that are a part of the Embracing Horses collection. I am not sure how well these fabrics are going to play with the rest of the collection. I may end up bringing the blocks I make with these fabrics into a quilt of their own.

#14 Willa

This Willa was cut entirely from the large horse head fabric. I often isolate small pieces of solid color from the necks of the horses in that fabric.

#35 Sharon

This Sharon was cut from the panel fabric. I like how the inner diamonds appear to be pieces from three separate fabrics because of the geometric design of the fabric.

#35 Sharon

The inner diamonds of this Sharon were cut from the running horses fabric. The outer diamonds were cut from the yellow triangle and swirl filler fabric.