Hexagons and Lozenges

I have finished hand piecing the hexagon block, it is amazing how much you can get done while 'watching' TV! I ended up needing 54 hexagons instead of the 30 odd called for in the pattern as mine are 1" not 1 1/4" I am quite happy with how they turned out, and it meant I got to include even more of these fun fabrics...

I will definitely use THIS method again.

I also finished the two lozenge blocks

I decided to machine piece these from squares, which worked out much quicker than making templates.

Each block is made up of four units. For each unit I cut one 3 1/2" square and two  2" squares

I drew a pencil line diagonally across each of the smaller squares

and carefully lined up the corners and then stitched on the line

pressed the small square over

and trimmed the seam allowance to 1/4"

I then did the same on the opposite corner, chain piecing the units to speed things up even more

The units were joined in pairs and then fours to make the two blocks needed