Hexie Quilt

 

Large Hexagon Quilt!

 

My tips on how to do a hexie quilt.

I lay the hexies out on a bed sheet so I can organize the whole thing. Then I can roll it up in between sewing sessions. That way I don't have to rearrange every time I get it out.

Sew together first in rows, then sew the columns together. Those pesky Y seams aren't so bad when the blocks are big.

 

I sew them together slightly differently than the tutorials I've seen. I sew all the way across the side when sewing the columns together. No back stitch or stopping 1/4" away from the corners. Then, when I'm sewing the Y seams, I leave my needle down in at the corner and just pull the next two sides flat and then sew. I find I don't need to draw dots. I can stop at the seam and eyeball where the 1/4" seam allowance would be. It works so much better for me.

 

 

 

 

Pretty machine quilting done on my juki TL2000

 

Hexagon Tutorial / Pattern with no Y seams/ Vintage fabrics

I just love a good hexie quilt don't you? But I really don't like difficult Y seams. Here's how I did this hexagon quilt with no Y seams. I'll try to show another arrangement below.

 

Sew two or three strips together like you see here. These strips are 2 1/4" wide.  2 1/2" works if you're only using two strips. (it's possible it could work for 3, not sure)                                                                               

 

Use a 60 degree ruler to cut triangles across the strip. Make sure the point is exactly one edge of the fabric. You can see I put a sticky note on the ruler approximately where the bottom of the strip should be. (you can see in this picture, the tip of this ruler is flat, so I had to lower the ruler 1/4" from the edge of the fabric and just pretend it continued to a point.)

 

How to use a regular quilting ruler to cut 60 degree angles. The ruler needs to have a 60* line on it. Just line up the 60* line with the edge of the fabric and keep turning the ruler back and forth from top to bottom making sure you're meeting right at the tip of the triangle on each cut.

 

When you're done, you should have six of each triangle in reverse of each other! How cool is that?

 

Sew three pieces together so they're in half. You can see in the green one here how only half of it is sewn together. They look so cute! it's so exciting to see them

 come together!

                                         

During the process, I discovered that sometimes I had a little problem. ....Not quite enough fabric for the last triangle. See how I run into the selvage edge?

 

So, I decided to stagger the fabrics about 3/4", so I didn't have to worry about running out of fabric at the end.

It works well.

 

Here's another way you can arrange the triangles...Love!

 

Then lay the hexie halves on a sheet or something and arrange them in a pleasing way. When it's on a sheet, you can roll it up and sew hexie halves together later at your leisure.

The lines here show the rows.

Sew halves together like this:

 

 

Then you'll attach the rows together lining up the corners / seams as you go.

 

I haven't figured out how the binding is going to go yet! wish me luck!