{"id":23046,"date":"2014-04-26T06:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23046"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:12:03","slug":"hexagon-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/hexagon-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexagon Block"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Finished<\/a>
Finished Hexagon Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow I will talk about how to make a hexagon block.<\/a> I realized that I haven’t been talking about the actual blocks that *I* make for the sampler more than what is in the tutorial. I decided I wanted to talk about it a little bit.<\/p>\n

As with the other blocks, the reasons I have my students make this block are:<\/p>\n

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  1. More practice on Y seams<\/li>\n
  2. Hexagon quilts are popular and my students may want to make one one day<\/li>\n
  3. More practice with color is always good<\/li>\n
  4. More practice with pattern is always good.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You may think that Y seams are tedious PITA that aren’t worth it, but becoming comfortable with Y seams has truly expanded my repertoire of techniques. I can make so many more blocks knowing how to complete Y seams.<\/p>\n

    I never thought I would make a whole hexagon quilt<\/a>, but I did. I was even shocked. I don’t think I will make another, but you never know. I also watch TFQ make one with a similar sized hexagons to the hexagons in the block above.<\/p>\n

    Since my sampler quilt is basically a two color quilt, I need to create contrast within that palette for each block. With all of those Y seams, you can bet that I do NOT want you, as the viewer, to see a big blob. I want you to see every single Y seam. \ud83d\ude09 While I am comfortable with Y seams, they are still a technique worthy of celebration and the choices of fabric that I made reflect that.<\/p>\n

    The result of using only two colors is that my color choices have already been selected. For the foreground, I am working hard to stay in the bright red arena – like scarlet. No blood red or rust red. As a result, I had mostly pattern with which to work . Using the different patterns of the fabric draws the viewer’s attention around the block.<\/p>\n

    For the background, I am trying to stay in the aqua arena. Some of my blocks have red in the background, but for continuity’s sake, none of the blocks have a completely red background and most have more aqua than red.<\/p>\n

    In the past I have hand appliqued the piece of hexagons to the background, but I was impatient this time. I machine appliqued it using Aurifil invisible thread. I didn’t scream through it, I sewed slowly and the blocks is pretty flat. I am pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tomorrow I will talk about how to make a hexagon block. I realized that I haven’t been talking about the actual blocks that *I* make for the sampler more than what is in the tutorial. I decided I wanted to talk about it a little bit. As with the other blocks, the reasons I have … Continue reading “Hexagon Block”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[349,321,132,380,142],"class_list":["post-23046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-blocks","tag-lessonsteaching","tag-quilt-class","tag-sampler","tag-sampler-quilt-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65424,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions\/65424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}