Hexy cubes

In case you need one more reason to paper piece hexagons, here is a new one. Try some hexy cubes.

You could use this design....

or this one.

The quilt should be a wallhanging,  it has to hang on the wall so that you could see the 3D effect.
You can make how many cubes you want. A quick project needs only three cubes.

 

For every cube you need three shades of the same color. Try to have some contrast between them.

You could use even different colors for the same cube. Just keep the same rule about contrast.

In the picture below, the combination "dark green-medium purple-light blue" is better than "dark green-dark purple-dark blue ".

 

Here is the difference between the two design.

One of them requests more hexagons.

Make the center hexagon of cube in a neutral color. It could be made out of the same fabric you will use for background.

Plan ahead what color you want to use for the hexagons that surround the cubes.  It should offer some contrast with the cubes and with the background as well.

I plan to make my cubes with 3/4'' hexagons. They don't require too much time or too much fabric. 

 

If you use 1’’ hexagons, the size of the design will be 47’’x 45’’ hide.

If you use 3/4'' hexagons, the size of the design will be about 35’’x 34’’.
The cubes will be appliqued on a background  fabric so that the final quilt will be even larger.

This design requires 61 hexagons for each cube.

 

For this design you need only 37 hexagons.

 

If you use 1’’ hexagons, the size of the design will be 38’’x 36’’ hide.

If you use 3/4'' hexagons, the size of the design will be about 28’’x 27’’.

And here are my fabrics.

Next time I will post some templates.I hope you will give it  try!

Have a great sewing week,

Geta

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