It seems like many quilters have a go with hexagons at some point. I have an ongoing hexagon project based on an antique quilt I saw in a book.
My years-long ongoing hexagon project
It’s been years and the end is nowhere in sight, but I’m sticking with it because I love the fabrics and I am going to love the quilt someday.
If you like hexagons, Ali at the blog a²(w) (read as “a squared w”) recently hosted a Festival of Hexagons that was two weeks worth of tutorials and hexie projects from a variety of bloggers.
This is just a screen shot of the link party, but it's linked to the real party. Please click through to see all the hexagon projects.
Now there’s a link party going on, which means that various readers have posted links to hexagon projects they are working on. So much inspiration!
And if all of that isn’t enough, you can visit Ali’s Pinterest board of hexagon projects to get your creative juices flowing.
The friendly folks at C&T’s Stash Books recently sent me a review copy of Hexa-Go-Go, the new title by Tacha Bruecher featuring 16 English paper piecing projects. It’s a wonderful book for anyone interested in hexagons and the myriad projects in which they can be used.
See a Google Preview of Hexa-Go-Go. My favorite projects are the Union Jack Quilt shown below and the Treehouse Hideaway Quilt.
- The Union Jack Quilt from Hexa-Go-Go by Tacha Bruecher
Let’s give this copy of Hexa-Go-Go to a Quilty Pleasures reader who wants to try some hexagons. Please leave a comment below by midnight Friday, August 31 to be entered in the giveaway. Answer this question: Have you ever tried hexagons or English paper piecing? We’ll announce winners after the U.S. Labor Day holiday next week.
The winner is Cindy Prince, comment #24. Thank you for playing along with Quiltmaker.
Oh yeah. I’m on the hexie bandwagon. Can’t live without a hexie project going now. I really do like them and have been using cards from Paper Pieces which are great. Thanks for the chance to win this book. It looks great!
Mary
I haven’t done any hexies yet, but I definitely keep thinking about it!
I have done EPP and I love the method. EPP projects are great for a take along project and often starts a conversation. The method is also great when you get together with your quilting friends because you can sew and visit too!
I haven’t gotten into English Paper Piecing but I am making a different style of hexie quilt by hand – Lucy Boston, Patchwork of the Crosses – one day a hexie quilt is calling me.
I am completely hexie-obsessed right now. I am doing a scrappy flower quilt using 1.5-inch hexies. I am also making at least one 3/4-inch hexagon of any fabric I use; that hexie goes into a collecting bucket for a project to be dreamed up later
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
I made a notebook holder for a Christmas gift for my niece a few years back and used scraps of green fabrics (her favourite colour) to make hexagons for the outside. She loved it, and I loved working with the hexagons.
I love hexagons, and diamonds!
My very first quilt, I found a Grandmothers Flower Garden, and I decided to hand-piece it! I took it to my college class with me, and got a 12″ block pieced in 3 class periods! Then I learned how to appliqué, sewing fusible appliqué right sides together, turn out, and fused it to the background. It turned out wonderfully scrappy and so cute!
Since then, I’ve wanted to do another, and I’ve also recently realized once again that I love to hand-piece. A new book all about hexies would be awesome!
Thank you!
Nope, haven’t tried hexies, that is is my quilt bucket list! The book looks absolutely fabulous! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I made a hexi table runner, I worked on it over several years. It was a great take-along project.
I’ve never tried EPP or hexies, but I would love to give it a try! Thanks for the giveaway!
I have a project of 30′s hexies that I am working on. I haven’t found the exact project I want to make yet, but there might be one in this book. I really enjoy making the hexies and the flowers are so cute! Thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for offering this hex book. I’ve been eye-balling it for a while. English Paper Piecing is relaxing and portable!
I made a Grandmother’s Flower Garden in the 80′s with one inch hexagon papers which I remember xeroxing to make. Now , I ‘ve been bitten again with those hexagons but absolutely love the small 1/4 to 1/2 inch available from Paper Pieces so no more xeroxing. I always have them with me…such a great portable project.
The hex book looks wonderful…this for a great giveaway opportunity!
Most definitely yes. I have three in various stages. Unfortunately I’m having some troubles with my thumb which severely limit hand sewing. All three projects are English paper pieced. So I pick one of them up and do a flower or two every so often. I might have to reconsider what their finished size is going to really be…..
Yes, I am currently working on one using scraps from a 30′s quilt and I don’t know how to finish it! I would love some ideas!!!
I am new to quilting and have started with table runners to work my way up to quilts. I love the look of hexagons, but have not risen to the challenge yet. But, I look forward to learning how to do all types of quilting.
I have worked on hexs for years. Would love some new ideas…..
Oh I do love EPP. I have a Hexagon quilt that I have been working on … forever. I love the peacefulness of hand piecing. I’m not quite as thrilled with the hand quilting, but that is another thing I need to learn to do so I can love it. I would REALLY love to see some more EPP projects. Different shapes as well as ideas for hexagons besides Grandmothers Flower Garden. This new book that is out promises just that. New hexie ideas. I just can’t wait to get my hands on one. I’d also love to see a return of lap quilting projects. Shocking!
I have been making hexagons too!. Got a “take along” bag for the car. Made 8 2″ just last night while hubby was in a meeting. Decided that the 2″ went so much faster than the 1″. What fun I am having. thanks for the chance to win the book.
I have done just a little bit with English Paper Piecing, but I really want to do some more. I just recently saw this book & am thinking it would be great to get started on a project from it.
I haven’t done either, but this book would certainly get me started. Thanks for the chance to win.
I fell in love with the look of hexies after someone presented a trunk show on them at my quilt guild. I have made many but haven’t decided what to do with them yet! I need some inspiration!
HELLO! NO I HAVE NOT TRIED ‘HEXIES’! HOWEVER I’M BECOMING INTERESTED IN TRYING THEM WITH SO MUCH ‘HOOPLA’ ABOUT THEM LATELY! THANK YOU SO FOR A WONDERFUL GIVEAWAY!
oh yes, I have an ongoing hexagon project too, a Grandmother’s Flower Garden. I love those quilts! and I’m thinking about starting a Christmas hexagon project, having been inspired by Bonnie Hunt’s ongoing hexie project
Thank you, Cindy Prince, Mississippi
I tried 3/4″ hexagons for the first time in 2011. I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and needed a recuperation project. For the six weeks I was off I appliqued 20 bunnies and did four grandma’s flower gardens with the hexagons and also pieced some cancer ribbons all in orange batiks. My Recuperation Quilt is not a top and ready to be sandwiched and hand quilted. I have become addicted to the hexagons and have so many more projects I want to try!
I have been quilting for 15 years and NEVER tried Hexies…..I’ve been hearing alot about them lately and am thinkin’ it’s time to try them
I have tried hexagon work, in a small pillow project at first, having to teach myself at that time. It was not easy, but it was amazing to see how far I’ve come since that attempt.. Thank you for the givewaway!
I haven’t tried it yet but have seen a lot of things online that have gotten me interested.
i have a grandmothers flower garden quilt on my wall. i love it and i would love to do hexagons. that would be fun.
Thanks. A book on hexagons.
I picked up some “quilt Patties” years ago and started a project-it is now buried somewhere in my sewing and quilting collection!
I really like the last look of hexagons but they seem a little scary to give them a try. Your instructions make them a little easier to accomplish
On a recent quilt shop hop instructions for English paper piecing were giving out. Once I started working on the small kit I was hooked. I love the portability and perfect matches.
Grandmother’s flower garden–one of my favorite oldie patterns.
I LOVE hexagons! I have made several projects, including a quilt with EPP hexagons.
I just love hexie projects! I’m on my 3rd bedsize Grandmother’s Flower garden. I’m about half way putting it together. Would love to have the new book for some new ideas. This for giving us this oppertunity for the give away.
I’m hand quilting a Grandmother’s Flower garden quilt that I hand pieced. The hexagons are 4″ and the quilt is really big. The hand work is very relaxing to me and I’m loving it.
I am working on a flower hexi table runner right now. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I love making hexies. I have been swapping hexi flowers for the past 2 years with other hexie lovers all over the globe. Have made several hexie projects and taught a class last week to teach others the fun of hexies. Thanks for a chance to win the book.
I’ve done lots of hand piecing but never hexies. Maybe I need a good book to get me started!
I tried hexagons for the first time during Craftsy’s BOM. I fell in love with them and made my mom a hexagon rug mug of my own design for Mother’s Day.
I am quilting, by hand , an old top for a friend and would love to piece my own.
Thanks for the chance.
Phyllis
It’s on my list. getting closer and closer to the top! Someday.
Thanks.
I pieced a Grandmother’s Flower Garden as my very first quilt which was over 40 years ago… that quilt is long gone as I didnt have any idea how to care for it… This was done before I knew anything about paper-piecing so I used a cardboard template… marked all my cutting lines, and sewing lines… sewed it together and then handquilted it… now I am working on 2 paper-pieced GFG quilts among other projects.
My new favorite take-a-long project this summer has been HEXI’S… Keep Calm and Get Your Hexi ON!!
I am lucky to be the owner of a traditional Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt pieced by my great-grandmother. I’ve always admired it and marveled at the many hours it took to complete. Love the idea of starting with a smaller project and improving my skill level. It would be great to make the Union Jack project in your book.
I have a bag of them I’m working on too. What a great way to spend some quiet time!
14 years ago, I started my first quilt ever….a Grandmothers Flower Garden of hexagons. I made that quilt and 3 more using my childrens outgrown baby and toddler clothes. I’ve made over 300 quilts since then, including 4 or 5 more hexagon quilts. Just finished a hexi table topper. I LOVE hexagons!!!!!
I Love hexi’s I’m currently working on a flower garden quilt and have taught and gotten many others just as addicted as I am! I am getting ready to start a mini hexi project and I’m always looking for new ideas for other hexi projects! I would love to have this book!
A quilt shop that I used to go to gave away little sample packs that would make 7 little hexi’s, needless to say I’m still working on them. A book of patterns would be wonderful to have.
I am making a hexagon table mat as I write, from Quilts and More magazine. Plus I am appliqueing flower hexagons onto blocks for a full size quilt. Love the hex’s!
I began a Grandmother’s Flower Garden April 1st while sitting by my dear 91 year old Father’s bedside with NOTHING to do. I went to a nearby quilt shop and this was all they had for hand work. I had left home with nothing thinking I was going to pack him up and bring him home to my sister’s house. However, God had other plans and he is now in a nursing home. I have always loved the hex but never got around to it. I am SO glad that I began! It is like eating potato chips. I now have 40 made with 2 layers of petals after the center. They are made from reproduction Civil War fabrics. I am shooting for about 100 so I am halfway there in these 5 months. While doing many other projects as well. They are my sanity stash! I have many doctor appointments for my husband who suffered a massive stroke 17 months ago so it is a joy to have a “travel project”. I never mind sitting in an office b/c I always have something to do. I am using the English paper piecing method with 1.5″ hexes. I have a punch that size and punch them from card stock paper. Now I am dreaming about how to make it unique in its fully pieced quilt with maybe applique on it as well? What fun!
I made hexagons back in the 80′s ! and I’m loving the new modern take on them!
I love the Union Jack!
I have recently finished a hexagon quilt using large hexagons! I have never tried EPP,
but have gradually gathered supplies and about to get started.
Amy Gibbson (from Craftsy) actually introduced me to hexagons and English paper piecing. I really enjoyed our blocks that month that includedd hexagons but haven’t had the chance to reacquaint myself with them since. It would be nice to reintroduce each other.
It really is a lifetime project – but worth it!
Oh, yes. I have the bug. Mine is a red-white-blue project, but I decided to use 1″ on the side hex’s and they are paper-pieced. I’ve loved hexagons forever, probably going back to the days my dorm room windows were hexagon shaped, and I was studying organic chemistry. When I met hexagons in my early quilting years, I finally realized “why I wasn’t a round peg, and I wasn’t a square hole”. I was a HEXAGON! and proud of it.
I have always loved the Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt pattern and appreciated all the work in the ones I’ve seen. Wanting to own a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt, I decided to try by starting with a smaller project, a table runner. Handwork has never been a technique I’d done, so I am pleased to say I’m enjoying it and it’s portable nature. Once the runner is finished I think a bed quilt is now on my bucket list.
I have tried it one time – part of a sampler quilt. I left that block for last because I thought I wouldn’t like doing it……….but it was so much fun. I’d like to try it again!
Love paper peicing, did a 48 piece Judy Martin block with that method. 15 years latter Im still hand quilting it. Sigh. But Id love to do hexies, have 2 1930′s flower garden quilts my great, great aunt made. Its on the list of things to do!
I ventured into a paper pieced hexagon project 3 years ago using 1 1/2″ hexagons. I only work on them on long car trips or on flights so it will most certainly be the most traveled quilt I own when I am finally finished with it. I am sure I will be working on it for at least another 3 years, but I know it will be worth it when I am finished.
I’m working on a hexie project but instead of English paper piecing I’m using a stamp and hand sewing them together. IMHO it eliminates some of the steps. It’s a great project for take along!
Yes, I have been bitten! I have an on going flower project; I’m not sure it will ever be finished. I’m using my scraps to make it.
I haven’t tried hexagons yet but would love to give it a try. I have done English paper piecing.
I love making hexies. I have made 615 todate (see my blog) Would love this book to use my hexies in a modern design. Thank you for the giveaway.
I’ve never tried either but I have it on my list of things to do. I so love the hexagon project I see all over everyone else’s blogs. The Union Jack done in hexies is so cool!
I made a table cloth years ago with Hexagons and I love it, It took a while to make, and I want to do another one. Bea Descanso, Ca.
I Love making little hexagons, now a pattern book would give me a direction for my craze!
Oh, I would love to win a copy of the book. Hexies are so much fun to play with. I would to have some new ideas. Thanks
Yes, I have an ongoing Grandmother’s Flower Gardern going. I’ve never tried paper piecing before. Thanks for the chance to win this book!
I’ve done a little English paper-piecing and love it.
I love your project…have a few ongoing EPP projects of my own…you should see if you can post a photo of Bonnie Hunter’s project too! I’d love the book just from the Union Jack, and hope I win it…thanks for the chance!
I have not done any hexies recently. I think I did them on one of my first quilts that was a sampler. It was done over 25 years ago.
I have not tried hexagons or English paper piecing but am always willing to try something new.
I’ve been wanting to try some hexies and hope to win to inspire me!
I have been working on a hexagon quilt for almost ten years. I would try another. When I get this one done. My goal is to have it done by the end of the year.
Wow! I’m loving that Union Jack done in all Hexies! Thank you for a chance to win.
Yes, I have made hexes and I love making them. Right now, I have some flowers made that I am going to join and make into a lap-sized quilt. My ultimate goal is to make a Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt some day. Would love to win this book. Thanks for the chance.
Y’all are starting to win me over. Itching to try.
I’ve never tried to do a hexagon quilt…most patterns seemed too “old fashioned” for my taste. Very nice to see some new “twists” and variations that are more modern. Perhaps I will try some!!
I learned how to do hexies last summer but haven’t picked them up again since then. I am tired of the typical flower setting and am looking for something different. This would fit the bill!
Thanks!
I have never tried these techniques before, but Tacha had me hooked as soon as I saw the Union Jack quilt above! I’ve been tempted in the past to try English Paper Piecing, but this has made me a believer. I love the scrappiness, and fresh colors, and am eager to try something new. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
I want to join the bandwagon and make a hexa quilt project> My friends in love it! It looks like a great take it anywhere type of project. Thanks for the opt to win a neat looking book and to share the links!
I have a long term hexie quilt in progress. I also have one finished. It is my Y2K quilt with 2000 (exactly) 1 inch hexagons. They are all Christmas fabrics and I love putting it on my bed at Thanksgiving each year.
I have not tackled hexagons or paper piecing yet. In fact, I just began quilting about a month ago. I am already pretty addicted, though
I just started doing hexy’s and they are very, very addictive!!! Like VERY addictive. Started a 1″ hexy scrap project and then another using 1/2″… Love doing them!
I have done hexies and paper peicing. Great book to win. Thanks for the chance.
I haven’t tried the hexagons as I am still working om YoYo’s but you make them look like fun. May have to try some in between.
I am addicted to English Paper Piecing! It’s a great addiction to have! LOL I am working on a 4″ block sampler quilt using English Paper Piecing as the technique. The book I am using gives no instructions on piecing the blocks, so I am making my own paper pieces for each block. So far it is working great! My trick is using photo paper. It is stiffer and you can use it over and over. I like to use a glue stick to baste. you can see one of my hexie quilts on my blog, http://www.hallbrookdesigns.blogspot.com
I have yet to do hexagons. This book looks like it is just what I need for inspiration and confidence.
Deborah
homemakerhoney @gmail .com
I just recently tried English paper piecing. I was going on vacation and thought this would be a nice mindless activity I could do in the evenings before retiring. I soon learned that although I find the handwork to be soothing, it is anything but mindless. You have to pay attention, small errors have a way of growing into big ones! I love the final result, a tablerunner, and am looking forward to planning my next project.
i’m doing my first epp project and loving it. it is addicting … and i love it! would love to win a copy of this book for more ideas and inspiration to make more hexie things!
I’ve not tried hexies yet, though I did make a patchwork prism quilt which ends up with hexagon shapes from all the triangles in it.
I have started to do hexies as a portable project when I travel but haven’t put them together yet.
I loved making hexies flowers. I have a years long hexies quilt still in the progress
I took a class to learn how to make hexagons years ago. I’m beginning to get interested in doing some more!
I am working on finishing a grandmother’s flower garden quilt that my grandma had started, but never finished. Would love to have this book for ideas to use all the hexagons I received from her.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOT)com
I’ve never done either, but I want to learn. Thanks for the chance!
I would love to give EPP a go. I have never tried it.
I just recently finished a huge queen hexy quilt. I am now working on a throw made entirely out of them. I use English paper piecing and I usually make them and sew them together on my morning commute on the train.
I have not yet tried hexagons or English paper piecing–but both are on my list of things I want to do someday. Thanks for the chance to win the book!
I have only been quilting about 4 years now and have not tried hexagons or English paper piecing but I am ready to try! Took a Dresden plate class with Diane Harris in Williamsburg,VA this summer had a great time and learned a new technique then too! Thanks Diane!
I have an ongoing Grandmother’s Flower Garden which I may even finish because it is a mini at 3/4 of an inch. It is in an easily “travelable” container and is my go-to for longer road trips and quilt demonstrations at local heritage festivals.
I’ve taught my daughters how to do paper piecing hexagons–they are addictive. I need to make a bunch in the next week or so for a small quilt project. I’ve made a table runner using these too.
I inherited some gfg hexies that I have been working on for 3 years. I love doing them, such an easy pick up and go project. They are very addicting! I would love to win this book!
I have never tried hexagons but would like to give them a try. I have done an English paper piecing project. I was looking for a project to take on long drives and decided to try that. It was suppose to be a baby quilt but I finally made it into a table runner.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a book.
My hexie project has been put on a shelf for al very long time. I need to get it out and work on it again. It is 3/4 of the done!
I picked up a free starter kit for hexagons at a quilt show a couple years back. It included 7 2-inch squares of fabric and 7 paper hexagons to make a flower. It sat forgotten in my sewing room for awhile, until one day I needed a small, portable project. I grabbed it and a spool of thread, and by the time I finished it, I was hooked! I don’t have enough of the flowers done to make anything out of yet, but I really like having something to work on that I can throw in my purse and take to doctor’s visits, car repair shops, car trips, etc.
I’ve been doing hexies for several years. Lately, there have been darling projects using them. I am dying to buy the new book!
I’ve got them in a container for my car project. Easy to work on if I’m waiting for an appointment.
Thanks for the chance! I have a few handsewn hexie projects in the works, but none done!
ive NEVER tried hexagons … im still quite a quilting beginner… but my dream would be to make something so amazing like the Union Jack Quilt!
thank you fotr the giveaway!
I started making some double hexie flowers for a GFG quilt. It is my seven year project as I handcut my papers and sew real slow, all the hexies are handstitched using my cobbled together methods. I would love to learn the proper EPP method to making hexies and diamonds, since am thinking about how nice an applique hexie flower border might look. Thanks for the chance to win Hexa Go GO as like what I’ve read about the book.
I’ve been a hexie-addict for many years… even managed to finish one hexie quilt!
—fortunately, they also make great pincushions!
Yes, I’ve done both and love them. My favorite quilt is the grandmother’s flower garden which I will do someday. Thanks for the chance on the book. Wish me luck!
I am currently working on a hexegon table topper for my sister who is in desperate need of some tlc. This is my first attempt and am completely hooked. I am wishing my self good luck on this book as I saw a pattern I would really like to try (one of these days).
I LOVE hexies and I too have an unfinished hexagon quilt that I have been working on (and off) for years. I would really like some suggestions to use up all that I have made.
Donna
I am working on a hexxie project, it is one I inhereted from my grandmother, it actually started out with the 6 pointed stars that have been sewn into rather large hexagons, now I have to finish them. But, I want to do a smaller quilt like some of the old mosaic style quilts!
I love EPP and Hexies. My absolute must have project for when I go on trips.
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
Have two hexy projects going – one using 3/4″ in black/white (just started) and another using scraps and a larger hexy (not sure of size, would have to go measure) that is farther along. I did finish a table runner using my first group of hexies – would love to win a book with ideas. This is going to be my take-a-long project now that I have finished my last one.
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