Morris Hexathon Set Ideas

Denniele's Morris Hexathon  1-15

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With only 8 more weeks to go to the finish line of 26 hexies you might want to be thinking about hexathon sets.

The official set.

37 light blue hexagons represent the pieced blocks.

24 dark are unpieced hexagons in the two central rings and then many more around the outside.

See the instructions at this post:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/04/morris-hexathon-introduction.html

Alternate Ideas

Just set them side by side,

shading in a medallion design as in the antique below.

Fredrica Josephson

National Trust of Australia

New South Wales

Or not.

Liza Lucy

Koi by Bruce Seeds

http://bruceseeds.com/

 Set them with plain hexagons

in rings 

By Lucy Jones, about 1900

West Virginia project and the Quilt Index

Set them with plain hexagons in a strip---in this one every other plain hexagon is white.

 Set them with triangles

Hexagon stars set with triangles, shaded in dark and light strips.

Cheater cloth from about 1875.

Set them with diamonds

From the Arizona project and the Quilt Index

Need more hexies?

This antique silk version is set with diamonds and

every other hexagon is not pieced.

Ring them with long hexagons.

A set Godey's Lady's Book pictured in 1854.

Stars set with long hexagons of madder brown.

Michigan project and the Quilt Index.

The long shapes can be narrow or wide.

Or

Just ignore the 60 degree geometry.

Laura Knownes, Wedgeplay