20+ FREE Hexagon Quilt Patterns

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Sew a hexagon quilt with this collection of over twenty free hexagon quilt patterns, tutorials, and diy sewing projects gathered from all over the web!

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**Please scroll down the page for the links to the free patterns**

Here you'll find a variety of tutorials for full hexagon quilts, plus hexagon quilt blocks you can make, then arrange in finished a quilt as you wish.

To cut your hexagon shapes, you can use a purchased hexagon ruler as your guide, which can also aid you in marking your seam lines for stitching your hexagon shapes together. However, this will require you to cut your hexagon shapes to a specific size. If you want to create custom hexagon shapes, you can either make your own cardboard template or you can use a regular quilt ruler to cut the required angles for your hexagons.

Because of their more complex shape, hexagons can be a bit tricky to sew. Therefore, a hexagon quilt probably wouldn't be a good first quilt project for a beginner. However, there's an easier version of a hexagon quilt that can be made with “half” hexagons, which will eliminate the need to sew a tricky “Y” seam (the angle where the hexagon shapes meet). Just cut half hexagon shapes, sew the shapes together at the sides, then sew these long strips together to create full hexagons (each side of the hexagon must be of the same fabric). Each hexagon in your finished quilt will have a center seam, but this should be barely noticeable if you use small print fabrics. And if you want more visual interest in your finished quilt, you can make your half hexagons obvious by using contrasting fabric for each half.

You can place your hexagons side by side for a quilt that consists of just hexagon shapes, or you can arrange them with triangles in between, which is a popular design. You can create your hexagons from single pieces of fabric or you can combine your hexagons with other shapes such as rectangles, circles, or stars. You can arrange your hexagons in an orderly, geometric pattern or you can arrange them randomly using an applique technique. And a hexagon quilt can be a great way to use pre-cut quilting fabrics like charm squares, fat quarters, and layer cakes.

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