Sets for Hexagon Blocks

Nancy's thinking of setting her Morris Hexathon blocks all-over with dark triangles.

Love the Strawberry Thief border.

This is the set that Becky and Ilyse are using too. See a post here:
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/09/morris-hexathon-sets-in-black-and-white.html

Here's a link to the instructions for the official set----is anyone going to use it?
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/04/morris-hexathon-introduction.html

Ilyse Moore has 61 hexies in her almost finished

project, which is titled "My Summer Obsession."

She is thinking about what goes in the corners.

Vintage hexie blocks set with striped triangles.

Deb Strain's Be Creative

If you shade things carefully the triangles

can dominate as stars.

In this vintage silk string hexagon, the maker

used black triangles and emphasized the stars

by using a medium purple diamond.

Minnie Meyers

Arizona Project

You can set the hexagon blocks with just the 60 degree diamond, an idea popular in the mid-20th century. I found several of these where the blocks are stacked with diamonds  on the Quilt Index.

And several for sale

Great quilt from the sixties maybe,

plain hexagons, pink & lime green diamonds.

If the hexagons are all the same pattern it's

 easier to get a coordinated look

but it works with samplers too.

Park Bench from Jaybird Quilts

The diamonds are twice the triangle.

You could set the sampler of hexagons in an all-over pattern, hexagon to hexagon.

As the Las Colcheras Quilt Guild did in their raffle quilt last year.

Koi by Bruce Seeds

http://bruceseeds.com/

Candied Hexagons by Ann Tenthy

with patterns from Ink LIngo

Liza Prior Lucy

Homage, another group raffle quilt with hexies set side by side

by the Springwood Community Quilt Show

They also popped some chintz hexagons in there to good effect.

Springwoodquiltshow.blogspot.com/2015/05/homage-raffle-quilt.html

Lucy Kingwell's pattern Smitten

The advantage to working with 60 degrees is that you can integrate diamonds, hexagons and triangles of various sizes as in this version of Smitten by Mickey & April at the Sweetwater Cotton Shop.

Peaceful Constellations by Mary Huey

http://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/p/diamond-stars-playtime-sew-along.html

Hex and Next by Jill from Fun with Barb. 

https://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com/2010/01/hex-and-next.html