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Amish Hexagons from Circles – Part 4 Coming Together

July 5, 2026 Susie Stuklis 3 Comments

Amish Hexagons from Circles – Part 4 Coming Together

Hello Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. Today I will share the next installment of of Amish Hexagons from Circles. This is a hand stitching project. For those of you who have been following along, you may already appreciate that I love to have a hand stitching project on the go, concurrently with machine stitched works.
It is really very nice to have a little project for all those moments when time is available but a machine isn’t. This can extend to traveling, waiting for appointments or to pick someone up or evenings when it’s nice to put one’s feet up and still have a needle in hand. While We Wait

A Helpful Tool

Normally, I am not in the habit of recommending or promoting products, however in this instance I would like to share that I have been using these Clover sharp needles for this project. They really are sharp and make sewing 🧵 these hexagons very easy. Hexagons from Circles

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The Coming Together – Round Four

In the previous post of this project Amish Hexagons from Circles Round Three Making A Floral Path I showed how I used many different floral fabrics to complete the 3rd round of the units.
Now it is time to put them together. I decided to to use a pale pink solid fabric as my background. The reasoning for this is, I believe, that this quilt will have an antique appearance. I felt that it would be complementary to all the other fabrics.
As a note, I have several metres of this pale pink solid fabric fabrics to cut my circles. Each unit will require 24 of the 3” circles.

Making Unit 2

Then they will be joined together using two of these initial units Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired By adding three of the pale pink units to each one will form a triangle shaped unit. We can call this Unit 2. As pictured below.

Make two of the Unit 2 for every one of the first unit. These units are the bridge for the Floral Path rounds.

This, incidentally, makes it very easy to join the rows together. Making a Grandmothers Garden quilt can be somewhat challenging as normally the units are offset. By adding a bridging unit, it allows for creating rows which can then be sewn together later. I hope that makes sense.

Progress So Far

This is how it looks so far. I still have plenty do do, however this will give an idea of how the top is coming together.

Thank you for joining me today. Feel free to email me with any questions or comments.

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Happy stitching,

Susie

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Amish Hexagons from Circles Round Three Making A Floral Path

July 14, 2025 Susie Stuklis 4 Comments

Amish Hexagons from Circles Round Three Making A Floral Path

Hello Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. I am sending you this post from Venice. I have taken a moment to sit in the sun on the veranda and stitch. If you are new to this blog Welcome to susies-scraps.com

Today I will discuss a bit more about these Hexagons from Circles Hexagons from Circles and show the next step in the quit I/we are making!

I was fortunate that in the last post on this subject of the making of this quilt Hexagon Flowers Second Round that one of my readers , Linda, who is sewing along commented that these are also known as Amish Hexagons. I found this totally intriguing as I had wondered which genius quilter had been initially responsible for this idea?

As it stands, I couldn’t find any direct evidence that this is where they arose from although the name clearly says a lot. Just like English Paper Piecing – there is a lot in the name. Funnily enough, It also occurs to me that it is like a form of origami…maybe there is a Japanese element…just saying. There are fabric Christmas ornaments made similarly in a folding method.

Therefore, for the time being, we will stick with Amish hexagons made from circles.

At this stage, I have now made hundreds of these hexagons and am still finding the process highly enjoyable, very portable and easy to do. One great advantage, in my opinion, is that while there is some extra weight, it is not as heavy as having papers inside the hexagons. When I made Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt Like Grandma Used to Make I found that the weight of the papers inside the hexagons put a considerable stress on the seam lines every though I took great care to have small tight stitches. It was all okay once I removed the papers.

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Anyhow, that is enough reflection for today. Let’s get on with the third round of these hexagons. This is my portable traveling project but it has become a bit of a favorite!

Requirements for Amish Hexagons from Circles Round Three Making a Floral Path

Using the same method as previously described in Hexagons from Circles and following on from Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired and Hexagon Flowers Second Round we will now continue with Round Three.
For each of the completed Hexagon Flowers Second Round
the next step will require 18 of 3” circles in assorted small print floral fabrics. Please use as many different fabrics as possible. I aimed for each round to contain 18 different floral fabrics.
Dig deep into your stash, this is still a scrap quilt!

Sew the 18 Amish Hexagons to the Second Round to make the Floral Path

I have my stack of precut 3” circles that has come on holiday with me. I choose 18 different fabrics for each floral path. Make the 18 Hexagons from Circles and sew each one around the edge of the second round to make the floral path.

Use small stitches and a sharp needle when sewing the hexagons together. Use a locking stitch at each corner for extra strength.

I hope you are enjoying making these hexagons as much as I am. Please feel free to free to email me about any concerns with this project.
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Happy stitching.
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One a Day Hexagon Flowers

August 19, 2024 Susie Stuklis 14 Comments

One a Day Hexagon Flowers

Helllo Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. Today I will share a bit of a different post from usual and share my current stitching project.

Currently I am on an adventure of a lifetime which has been long in the planning, but for which I still wanted to include a stitching opportunity. I am hamstrung in the sense that my stitching, for some weeks will be by hand.

My aim has been to stitch at least one of my Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired each day to add to my collection. I have some at home and cut as many circles as possible to bring on the trip. By my calculations I may have done about 90 in total so far. Here are some from recent days.

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Sailing into St John’s Newfoundland

Presently we are sailing into St John’s Newfoundland. They have a tradition of painting their houses in bright colours. Could be inspiration for a quilt!! What do you think?

So far we have taken a very long journey from Australia to London then onto Reykjavik in Iceland for the first part of our journey. We had a few days of touring around Iceland which was quite an extraordinary experience and so different from any Australian landscape. We traversed high flowing river crossings in giant 4 wheel drives fit for such purpose. We were able to view incredible waterfalls and the most amazing glaciers. We had a wonderful guide who was so personable and passionate about Iceland. Here she is Hanna. #hannaingibjorg (just in case you ever think of going there)

After our time in Iceland we boarded a ship to make our crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean to Greenland. I’m sorry to say that the crossing was a bit unsettled and I lost a couple of days to seasickness.

However, once we entered the sheltered fiords of Greenland we were in this magical land of dramatic cliffs iceburgs and glaciers. Truly a sight to behold. It was worth the journey. If you zoom in on the photo above you can see the giant glacier in the centre.

We had another unsettled crossing of the Labrador Sea.

I wasn’t able to stitch even One a Day of the Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired but have managed to make up for it since.

We visited L’Anse aux Medows where there is a UNESCO site of a Viking settlement from Laif the Lucky, son of Eric the Red where they also have a recreated version of Viking village.

For those of us who like stitching, I came across this lady who was doing a cross between sewing and knitting to create the woolen style garments used by Vikings. she used a large needle like a sewing needle, but with a single thread of wool and with that she created a knitting style pattern.. she was making a hat.

We were told that women of the time who were not adept in craft activities, was grounds for men to divorce them. And if men were cowards that was grounds for women to divorce them.

I am struggling with the Internet here so I shall sign out. We are trying to escape Hurricane Ernesto. I will leave you with this beautiful image from Greenland.
To be continued…

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All the best,

Susie

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Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired

June 7, 2024 Susie Stuklis 6 Comments

Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired

Hello Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. I mentioned when I posted the Hexagons from Circles post that I thought I had found my next hand piecing project and indeed I think I have! so I would love to share that with you today.

Let’s be very clear, I know I do not need to start a new project, however, I do find that having something small to work with the hands is not only creative, a good use of spare time, for example when travelling or waiting for appointments, it can also be a comfort.

Besides that, my friend Elle Millbank, sent me some really beautiful scraps from her collections and many of them appear to be beautiful reproduction prints. Thank you Ellie for the beautiful fabrics! They are in layer cake squares which I sorted through. I have pondered over these for some time and wondered what would I make? After trying the hexagons from circles, I thought, this is the one.

In my mind I am thinking about beautiful antique English quilts which often feature Hexagons exclusively in those quilts, or they may become part of the design in medallion style or even be used to appliqué onto parts of a quilt or in borders of flowers or diamonds.

The good news is, that these make up pretty quickly, once you get the hang of it. after the circles have been cut, I can sew up each hexagon in less than two minutes. The flower takes longer of course!

This is what I have done so far. I decided to use a 3″ circle to make my hexagons which are a scant 1″.

The Hexagon Flower Antique Inspired measures approximately 4 ½” across.

I would like to take a moment to say, as always I have prewashed my fabrics. I understand this is a personal choice… but here are my reasons. To Wash or Not to Wash?….This is the Question

Method for Cutting the Circles for the Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired

Because I am working from scraps and layer cake squares, using the 3″ template makes sense as I can cut 9 circles from each layer cake. If this method does not appeal of course you can purchase a circle ruler as recommended to me by both Ellie and Tammy.

I fold each layer cake square into three. Then draw around my template. Pin and move across to draw three circles. I then cut with small scissors around each circle then remove the pins. That makes 9 circles quite quickly. It doesn’t take long to make a stack.

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Sewing the Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired

I have opted to make these flowers scrappy. Three different fabrics are used for each hexagon.

I am using one for the centre then alternating two other prints around the centre hexagon.

Using a small whip stitch, sew three prints alternating around each side of the centre hexagon.

Then put the other three hexagons in between the gaps.

Here is what I have done so far. These are pretty addictive and great for sewing in small gaps of time. I hope that was helpful.

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments.

When my collection of these has expanded sufficiently I will give an update on the next step.

Happy stitching.

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Method for Cutting the Circles for the Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired

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