Valerie at re-engineered.blogspot.com made a beautiful quilt with split hexagons. What a great idea!
I made one in EQ7. You can download the file here.
Here is how I did it….
After playing around for a bit I decided just to make a long skinny block. Mine is 2 x 30.
I then started a Vertical Strip Quilt. I popped the blocks in and flipped every other one. Then I started playing around.
For this quilt I right clicked on a color then clicked Add Shades & Tints. It will add darker and lighter variations of the color you picked to the sketchbook.
Then, I clicked the Random Recolor 
tool.
Here is that same quilt after I clicked Random Recolor > Map to fabrics.
The first quilt after Random Recolor Tool > Shift Hue.
The first quilt and Random Recolor Tool > Randomize.
And of course you could make a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt BUT without Y-seams 
If this inspires you to make something, let us know! Email photos to Heidi@electricquilt.com.
05-14-2013
11:18 am
I like this! I am now more willing to try a quilt using hexagons. I will need to download the file into my EQ7 and give it a go. Thanks for the post!
05-15-2013
1:34 pm
I agree! Seems much easier, good luck
05-14-2013
6:48 pm
Fun idea.
What about using larger Jelly rolls?
sewing with a smile, dottie
05-14-2013
6:53 pm
Oops! Meant larger triangles & using Jelly Roll strips.
dottie
05-15-2013
1:36 pm
You can change the blocks to be any size you want so, you can edit it to work for jelly rolls or whatever size fabric you’d like to use.
05-14-2013
11:03 pm
I love to paper piece and this is how I make my scrappy hexagons. I call it the “boat” shape when explaining it to people – floating and then capsized, next to each other in a line. I print out the boat template and draw spinning, thin triangles. These are about 7 inches across the block. The spikes use up a lot of scraps. I keep them by the sewing machine and make 2 halves when I have some scraps from a project. I have not been able to draft the inside of the half hexie in EQ7. I wish they would come out with a grid for hexie, like they have for circles and other shapes.
I assume you know that in the EQ6 piecing book, there is a few pages on drafting an isometric (60 degree) grid. This info is not in the owners manual. Thank you again for the project and information and the project. I will download it and try more ideas with hexies.
05-14-2013
11:05 pm
Sorry, should have said the spinning points radiate from the center, around the inside of the hexagon.
05-15-2013
1:40 pm
Thanks for the comments. Great additional information and ideas!
There is a hexagon layout if you go to Quilt > New Quilt > One Patch Quilt > and choose Hexagon under Patch Style.
05-15-2013
6:44 pm
This is awesome! I am very glad to have these tutorials so I can get better use from my program. When I try and do it myself it takes SO much longer! Thanks.