{"id":672,"date":"2008-12-21T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/hexagon-edges\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T04:03:38","slug":"hexagon-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/hexagon-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexagon Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am also still working on the hexagons. I am in a spot where there is a lot of sewing triangles to hexagons and then pressing. It is the part where it looks like not much progress is being made.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxqZrg1e9I\/AAAAAAAAC6c\/-yu5WN5zFsY\/s1600-h\/PICT3421sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 80px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxqZrg1e9I\/AAAAAAAAC6c\/-yu5WN5zFsY\/s320\/PICT3421sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281713452408470482\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I did take some time to figure out the bottom of the quilt. I am at the point where I need to shift everything up.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxu0kfvhkI\/AAAAAAAAC6k\/Hr5qkr1G9gE\/s1600-h\/PICT3428sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 182px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxu0kfvhkI\/AAAAAAAAC6k\/Hr5qkr1G9gE\/s320\/PICT3428sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281718312427816514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Since my design wall isn&#8217;t big enough to handle a twin sized quilt, I need to shift the top off the design wall, leave a few pieces so I know how to hook the top and bottom together and then slap up the hexagons destined to be on the bottom of the quilt.<\/p>\n<p>So far, it isn&#8217;t working. I haven&#8217;t gotten the right steps in my head enough to move forward so I am sewing equilateral triangles to hexagons (check!), pressing (half check!) and sewing together four hexagon units to make diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>I am also still thinking about the side borders. My decision was to have an uneven border. That decision is still not settling completely well with me. I am thinking of making a big diamond template and sewing a plain red piece (or use different fabrics) onto the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am also still working on the hexagons. I am in a spot where there is a lot of sewing triangles to hexagons and then pressing. It is the part where it looks like not much progress is being made. However, I did take some time to figure out the bottom of the quilt. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/hexagon-edges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hexagon Edges&#8221;<\/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":[388],"tags":[269,139,331,332],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-eye-spy","tag-hexagons","tag-piecing","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}