One Patch Charm Quilts: Day Six

Are you still with me? Are you looking at your stash a little different? Charm squares and layer cakes begging you to pull them out and stitch with them? The shape I want to feature today, Carolyn Forster calls the "tile" or "double prism." I call it an elongated hexagon because I have used this in my English Paper Piecing. Let me show you: Image of Elongated Hexagon from Paper Pieces I have been working with this shape off and on for about 15 years. I have ideas swirling around in my head. Just not sure where I'm going, but it's fun to play with these 30s prints and the elongated hexagon papers. Elongated hexagons using 30s prints I use a very unorthodox method to wrap the fabric around the papers. I cut rectangles and stitched the short ends together to create points: Rectangles with short ends stitched Then I turn them around and slip the papers in. I will fold those last ends over and stitch in place. Short ends of fabric stitched and turned Here are a f...