Originally Posted by
luvstoquilt
Brilliant! I would not have thought of that! I keep learning from this group!
Yeah, I learned it here too! You make a OBW and keep the two hex halves together until you lay out the rows and just sew the rows together -- brilliant is the exact word I used!
I'm going to be making a very modern quilt, quite a departure from what I usually do, and I will be doing just a few very fancy metallic fabric OBW alternating with black because I want that walnut sort of shape. I already made one set of blocks but I grabbed the wrong ruler and came out with octagons instead of hexagons. I tried to convince myself that it would be ok, but ever though I used up the right fabric on the wrong shape, I'm going with a perfectly fine if not exactly right fabric with the shape I want.