Who loves Hexagons?

I am participating in a huge blog hop celebrating hexagons
 and today is my day to share.

Thanks to Madame Samm for continuing to 
come up with all these great ideas for the hops and

thanks to Debby our cheerleader, who has been so sweet with her reminder emails and her hard work getting all the links sorted out. 
I am sure it is not as easy as it looks.

So what did I do to honor the Hexagon?

I purchased these

thinking I would make a grandmother's flower garden quilt.

But after making three english paper pieced hexagons I knew in my heart a flower garden was not going to happen.

I decided I didn't like hexagons at all.
I know there are so many other ways to play with 
hexagons so I had to noodle out a new idea.

After a lot of thought I decided to start a quilt for
 my grand baby, due in a few months.   
I started by drawing a sketch and then a few pattern pieces.

Well instead of talking your ear off . . . I'll just show you a few pics.

I used hexagons as the background for this fused applique owl.

her eyes, upper wing, and tail feathers have hints of hexagons.

did you see her butterfly tattoo?

I allowed the hexagons to overlap the right side border. 

I used a zig-zag stitch to quilt in the ditch

If you look closely you'll see birds on the leaves of the tree.

A few details:

I used six wedges of fabric for each eye feather area and a wonky hexagon for each eye. I didn't want them to match exactly.
I also used  fabric pencils to shade a few areas. Her beak was too blah until I shaded it and made it stand out.

in progress

shading  done

hello !

 I wanted it to be super puffy
so I used two layers of batting

finished size - 30"x 50" ( when binding is added )

So back to the question

Who loves hexagons?
well . . .
even though they look pretty good as a sky background,

Not me.

and what about all those paper hexagons?

well 
I painted them

I'll be able to use these in my art journals. 
Nothing wasted.

Thanks for stopping by !

Have a Happy day !

Please visit these wonderful quilters who are sharing their projects with us today.

We Shall Sew  

  

Life@RuffHaven

Pieced Brain  

   

Den Syende Himmel 

   

Creatin’ in the Sticks 

   

Meadowbrook 

   

Sandra Kaye Designs  

   

Let’s Patch it Up 

   

Sew Many Yarns  

  

Around the Homestead 

Sew Mollie Sue, Quilt Much?

The whole list of participants is here on Debby's blog