Hex Me!

I love pattern. I love graphic designs (which means I like the interplay of flat, geometric shapes) so it is perfectly logical that I love Amish quilts the best, but these triangle in a box blocks have so much potential and I am having a lot of fun with them.

This is I don't know how many scrap slab triangles arranged on the design wall.

See how six of them make a six pointed star shape with a hexagon in the middle? Very nice. But notice my design wall only has room for two full shapes, then it has a half a shape. That means my quilt will have to be 18" wider, or 72". No problem, I can do that. I'm going to have to shift everything over so the design will be centered while I figure out what I want to do with it, but that will happen later.  While this is quite lovely, I have other colors I want to play with.

This is kinda sorta fun, but those half designs on the sides REALLY have to be completed shapes. Again, not a big deal, and not worth stopping the creative ideas that are zinging around. Time to fill up those empty hexagon spaces...

This is cool, but it's a bit too regular and predictable for my taste.

I like it with lots of color.

There is definitely a lot of potential here, and I am just throwing the shapes up on the wall to make the pattern. I haven't fine tuned anything, like finding the right placement and orientation of each triangle slab. I'll find it. I'm in the early stages yet.