bearisgray

Looks like it could be pieced with y-seams - or hand pieced.

Or constructed as a snowball - but that gives lots of seams in the squares.

One can vary the proportions to get different effects.

ManiacQuilter2

Don't worry ! It is easy to mistake a hex for an octagonal. Would be easier to snowball the blocks but I am certain that those squares were stitch as an insert fussy cut square.

RST

To me it looks like snowballed blocks with embroidery on the "squares" disguise the piecing. So OP -- are those squares pieced or are they single blocks fussy cut?

Geri B

No need for papers! Just sew the squares together as desired....fussy cut whatever you like---this one isolated a flower---usually a snowball square is 1/3 of square it is attached to, but that is your decision, so cut out square,allowing for seam turnover....top stitch those squares on point onto intersecting seams.....easy-peasy...

AZ Jane

I love the hearts quilted into the big squares.

MargeD

It looks like a snowball quilt to me.

nativetexan

this should be easy to piece. the triangles on corners make the hexagon a square. then you can sew them together in rows. Good luck.

ghostrider

Blow the photo up and look at it closely. The squares are one piece, no seams, embroidered, not fussy cut. It does not appear that the squares have been appliquéd over the four corners of squares beneath them (meaning there is no bulk beneath them), but since the four edges of the squares have obvious embroidery on them, it's possible that they were indeed appliquéd. It is a standard tessellated octagon and square pattern with single pieces for both the squares and probably also the octagons. The logical way to recreate it is with set in seams.

If you want to go fast and easy, then snowball it, but that was not how this example was made as there are definitely no seams in the squares.

roguequilter

hi ...someone else posted a link to angela walters page of tutes and free patterns. one of the patterns she posted is a updated way of doing the quilt in your photo, which is a snowball quilt. a traditional quilt pattern using octagons & joining squares. but as others have commented, it is easy to do w stitch & flip method. here is the link to angela walters free pattern pdf to download. she uses a fabric line in her directions. but you can do it scrappy as in your photo.

http://www.quiltingismytherapy.com/w...structions.pdf

btw ...angela walters is well known quilt designer but more importantly well known machine quilter. she has many free machine quilting tute videos on her site.

GrannieAnnie

These are octogons------8 sided! Anyway......It appears that the sides attached to the next octagon is longer than the sides sewn to the squares.

The octagons might be snowballed squares, but I don't see seams in the print squares, so maybe they are squares set in separately.

I'm thinking the design wouldn't be as pleasing if the squares had sides the same length as the octagons attached to each other.