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Apparently I'm not alone in feeling uncertain about how to quilt a One Block Wonder. I'm in the midst of sewing my second one and just love the serendipity and forgiving nature of this style of quilting. The arrangement of the hexagons makes quilting it a puzzler. My first OBW went un-quilted. Inexperienced as i am, I chose to make it with a lovely Ralph Lauren Lakota Paisley, in a suede like fabric, and although it turned out beautiful, the thought of trying to quilt through all that thickness is too daunting. Because it is intended as a wall hanging, I used a fusible batting and no quilting.
Desperation led me to use my computer's Paint program to brainstorm ideas for this next quilt, but then I got carried away. I’ve created some templates and I thought to share them for the personal use of anyone who likes them. I'm a novice and have little knowledge of traditional patterns and designs, but liked people's suggestions of doing e2e and allover quilting. Some of my ideas are most likely nothing new to quilting, but they are laid out on the hexagon grid, so that might be helpful. I tried to make some doable as continuous line quilting. Also, quilts are better when the quilting itself ties into the overall design.
The best template of all is the blank one, which hopefully people can print out and use to doodle their own designs. I'm hoping other people might also post some of their own ideas, because I have gotten requests from family for at least 3 more One Block Wonder quilts.

Template 1: A Blank Template for a One Block Wonder Quilt - A basic hexagon grid. The center of each hexagon is marked with a pink dot, which is handy to know where it is when planning out your quilting pattern so you can avoid having to sew through it as often as possible.

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Template 2: Waves Quilting Pattern - This continuous line pattern looks a little Oriental to me. It would beautiful to include one or two outlines of an element from your fabric, such as koi fish or a lotus, in and amongst the waves.

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Template 3: Vines & Leaves Quilting Pattern

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Template 4: Trillium Quilting Pattern - Really just simple circles. The petals would look more like Trillium if they were wider.

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Template 5: Ticker Tape Parade Quilting Pattern - The addition of the stars makes it look rather patriotic, but you will see that IÂ’ve reused to ribbon twirl for other themes.

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Template 6: Prairie Style Spheres Quilting Pattern - this looks very complicated, but it is really just overlapping large circles.

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Template 7: Forget-me-not Quilting Pattern - I drew this from a real flower. Each separate motif can be quilted in a continuous line. With small adjustments, the flowers would also look like apple blossoms and wild roses.

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Template 8: Escher Birds Quilting Pattern - Inspired by M.C. EscherÂ’s painting Â“Day and NightÂ”. Which in turn came from having the Cole Porter song Â“Night and DayÂ” stuck in my head.

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Template 9: Daisy Chain Quilting Pattern - Very simple to do as a continuous line and it avoids those heavy layers in the centers of the hexagons.

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Template 10: Curling Ribbons Quilting Pattern

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Template 11: Cathedral Window Style Quilting Pattern - it reminded me a of a Cathedral Window quilt.

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Template 12: Butterflies Quilting Pattern - IÂ’d really like suggestions on how to simplify this and make it less busy.

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Your designs are awesome and you are so thoughtful for sharing them! Not only that, your designs will translate well to non-hex quilts! Great job.

thank you for sharing with us! I am working on a hex quilt and you gave me some great ideas.

boy, if one can't find an appropriate pattern here.... thanks for sharing

and welcome to the QB from MN

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!

Thank you for sharing!

Wonderful! Thank you!

What a generous share!!! I was stumped as to how to quilt my OBW. Now many great ideas. Thanks again! :thumbup:

Thank you. Very kind of you to do this for us.

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the board!

These are fabulous! what a great idea. I could use them all!
peace :D

I can hardly wait to see the quilts you will be posting soon.
peace :D

Welcome to the board.

Wow, you're so very creative and generous to put in the time and effort to do this and to share with us. Thanks so much!

Most kind ...thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Figuring out how to quilt is the most difficult part for me. I can't wait to try these.

That was absolutely fabulous - great ideas too..
The butterflies - I would take out every other butterfly and put in swirlies. I love swirlies and butterflies together since the swirlies remind me of the way they fly.

BuzzinBumble, I love your quilting patterns! What program do you use to make these patterns?

Thank you. I always struggle with quilting patterns

What a generous offering. Wow! I haven't made a OBW, but maybe could use many of these in another quilt.Thank you and welcome to the board from WV.

Thank you for sharing your creativity.

Wow, great quilting ideas! Thanks for sharing them. These will work great on any kind of quilt, not just a OBW, although those are kind of hard to figure out how to quilt them.

Thank you, thank you, I have one waiting for an idea to pop up!!!

Love all your designs. Thank you so very much! Yolanda Wood River

Thanks so much for sharing all your great ideas. I find all these really helpful. As to the butterfly one, I would make a simple flower design in every other block to break it up a little bit. But really love them all and I have a quilt all pinned and waiting for FMQ so may try out one of your ideas. Was so great of you to pass on this info.

Thaanks so much for sharing your beautiful designs and welcome from SW Indiana!

These are really nice patterns - thanks for sharing! Welcome from Delaware.

A Very Warm Welcome from Georgia. Thanks ever so for the wonderful ideas. You are so right too, you are not alone wondering how to quilt the OBW. Bookmarked this one!

Welcome from So.Minnesota! Thanks for the templates. How helpful. Looking forward to seeing your finished products...only on this QB!! YES!!

Thank you so much for all this work that you did and are sharing with us.This is definitely a keeper for me.

Thanks much for sharing!!! I did a OBW and did some echo quilting leaving some of the triangles blank. Nothing as pretty as this.

How generous and thoughtful of you. I'm bookmarking this immediately. Thanks so much.

Thanks for your generosity

Thank you so much for these ideas! I especially love the butterflies!

Thank you so much for sharing!! :)

My favorite is #11.....thanks for sharing!