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Twee top's waar ik al heel lang mee bezig was mogen op de stapel " Nog te quilten". Als eerste het bloementuintje met heel veel verschillende blauwe lapjes. Veel uit voorraad maar ook heel veel van gulle gevers. Dank daarvoor. Rand moet nog bijgesneden en wordt niet zo breed . Moet ik voortaan maar niet zo krenterig zijn met stof kopen. En de mandjes quilt was vorig blogje al bijna af. Nu nog op pad om mooie stofjes voor de achterkant te kopen en eens wat vaker een uurtje quilten anders wordt het nooit wat. En dit nieuwe patroon van B.B.design kwam ik tegen op het net. Misschien een leuk idee voor andere mandjesmakers .

With a quick switch of fabric, one can easily change up the look of this stunning hexagon quilt by Polka Dot Chair. Quilts made from one shape are always so eye-catching, and this one is no except…

Gistermorgen naar Neerijnen gereden om in het Stroomhuis de expo van Ans Schipper te gaan bezoeken. En jullie willen vat mee kijken naar ha...

When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how

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From the color choices to the nearly 3D texture provided by the smart, simple applique technique, there's nothing about this gorgeous machine-stitched hexagons mini quilt that I don't absolutely love.

I started a project a few years ago when I was pregnant with my second child. He's about to turn 4! Am I done? Not even close, but I knew starting it would take me

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Ich hatte die Ehre diesen wunderschönen Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt von Manuela zu quilten. Er hat die beachtliche Grösse von 2.25 x 2.25 m. Sie wünschte ein leichtes Quilting, ähnlich wie das vom Orginalquilt von Jessie Fincham, damit der Quilt schön weich bleibt. Auf dem Blog von Jessie Fincham "Messy Jesse" findet ihr auch ein Free Pattern für diesen Quilt. Nur für den Fall, dass ihr noch viele Stoffreste rumliegen habt, die gerne vernäht werden möchten... Wie ich die beiden Kreise gequiltet habe, verrate ich auf dem BERNINA Blog. Falls ihr den Post noch nicht gelesen habt, hüpf doch rasch rüber... Nun folgt eine kleine Bilderflut, den ich konnte mich einfach nicht entscheiden, welche Bilder ich rausstreichen sollte... Ich hab sie jetzt einfach mal stehen lassen... Wer schon etwas länger mitliest weiss, dass ich sehr geordnet an meine Quilts herangehe. Daher bewundere ich alle, die Scrappy Quilts machen können. Ich finde sie toll, doch ich bin mir nicht sicher ob ich selber mal einen machen kann! *lach* Einen habe ich bisher schon gemacht, doch sogar bei dem habe ich versucht eine gewisse Ordnung reinzubringen. Hier könnt ihr selber mal schauen wie mein "Grandmothers Flowergarden" geworden ist. Die Kreise und geraden Linien sind mit dem Ruler und die Blütenblätter / Federn habe ich freihand gequiltet. Manuela wünschte sich das Wollvlies und das war die perfekte Wahl. Durch das fluffige Wollvlies wirkt das Quilting so schön plastisch. Mit dem etwas festeren Baumwollvlies wäre die Wirkung nicht so stark. Das Baumwollvlies eignet sich mehr für ein dichteres Quilting oder auch Pantographquilting, bei welchem das Patchworkmuster mehr zur Geltung kommen soll als das Quilting. Ein Beispiel dazu findet ihr hier. Inzwischen ist der Quilt wieder bei Manuela. Schaut doch mal bei ihr auf Instagram vorbei. Ihr findet sie dort unter manoulest Das Quiltmuster hat mich definitiv herausgefordert, da ich mich immer noch nicht so recht getraue Freemotion zu quilten. Doch mit jeder Herausforderung wächst man ja auch und am Ende bin ich froh über solche Challanges. So muss man einfach mal raus aus seiner Komfortzone... Mein Ziel in Zukunft ist nun mehr auch mal Freemotion zu machen. Es macht nämlich so was von Spass! Habt noch eine gute Woche ♥ Iva

Een waar feestje was het op dinsdag, 13 oktober, om bij De Sampler in Haarlem te zijn. De gezellige quiltwinkel van Tamara en Frank, waar je altijd gastvrij en ook, zeer quiltdeskundig, ontvangen wordt met koffie, thee, 'n lief gezicht en heel veel lapjes, lapjes, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerlijk,... LAPJES en quilts, bolletjes en rolletjes gezelligheidjes her, en der en, quilts quilts quilts, QUILTS. kortom heel veel,... INSPIRATIE. Wat er verder nog te doen was? Boven in de volle ruime lesruimte, waren enthousiaste quilters fanatiek en zeer geconcentreerd bezig om de Konijnenfamilie in stof om te toveren. Natuurlijk onder begeleiding van Quilt Juffie Goof, die het altijd fijn vindt haar cursisten op 'n rustige gezellige manier, Goofse quiltzaken uit te leggen. En de catering? Die werd zo als altijd weer helemaal top verzorgd door Tamara & haar Lieve Helpende Schatten. Zoals reeds gezegd,... Het was 'n waar feestje in De Sampler. TOT DE VOLGENDE KEER. Wellicht met FOEP,.... :o)

Since I can't enter our Show & Tell events, I thought I'd share my hexie puzzle quilt with you this weekend.

A fresh spin on a classic hexagon quilt that adds style and an extra bit of flare.

So how do you finish the edges of a hexagon quilt? There are loads of ways. Kath left a comment and she wrote the following: I made enough hexies in my chosen border colour to go right round my quilt, but I adapt the shape with sides 4,5 and 6 forming a square.When I baste them to the papers, I left side 6, the outer edge 1/4" un-basted. I attached them all round my quilt as , then used my machine to attach the matching border. The unbasted, unsewn edge is what lines up with the edge of my border. Thanks Kath! This is a great technique and I used it on my quilt Mom's Flower Bed. Mom's Flower Bed, 2011 Karen (not me) also left a comment. This is what she wrote: I am half way through a baby sized hexie quilt and I've decided to do a shaped border by stitching the last row of hexies and flipping them to the back over the top of the backing material before completing the hexies. They will be top stitched down giving a hexie shaped border. This article explains it better. Thanks Karen! I've seen that post by Amy of Badskirt but I haven't tried the technique! Please let us know how it works out when you finish your baby quilt! My Godstone Grannies (GG) was entirely hand sewn so once the diamonds were stitched together I just wanted to get the border attached and be done with it! So my plan was to applique the quilt top to a narrow border. I used that method to make my Stars in the Loft quilt and it worked perfectly. Stars in the Loft, 2002 Before we get started a little bit of advice in the form of a helpful tip! HELPFUL TIP: I remove all of the hexagon papers and basting threads except for those all around the outside edge of the quilt. This will keep the edge stable until after it has been appliqued to the border. Border strips have to be cut accurately or the border will be ruffled or puckered and it won't lay flat when it comes time to quilt. Believe me, I know this because I am speaking from experience! How do I determine the length of the strips? I could measure the length and width of the quilt through the middle but I don't like doing this because I can measure three times and come up with three different measurements. Instead I measure my blocks and then do a little math to calculate what I will need. I've decided that I want to applique my quilt to 2 1/2" border strips and I want to miter the corners so this will have to be taken into account when I do my calculations. The Side Strips for the Border I measured the length of a diamond block from the top point of the path fabric to the bottom of path where there is a pair of path hexagons touching (I've excluded the last path hexagon at the bottom that completes the diamond shape) and the measurement is 20 1/8". I've placed small orange circles on the right and left to show where I stared measuring and where I stopped. There are four diamonds in the length of the quilt so I will need strips that are: four diamond lengths (20 1/8" X 4) plus one hexagon for the bottom of the path plus the last hexagon that was excluded from my diamond measurement. That hexagon is 1 1/2". 5" which is two times the strip width of 2 1/2". The measurement I come up with is 87". I want to have a little wiggle room so that the strip is slightly longer than I need so I'll add another 4" so my strip length is 91". Once I've done the applique and mitered the corners the extra fabric will be trimmed. ALTERNATE METHOD OF MEASURING: Sometimes you don't have blocks right out to the edge as does my GG quilt. For those quilts I simply measure ten hexagons and use that measurement to make the registration marks on my border strips. The Top and Bottom Strips for the Border Next I calculate the strip length for the borders on the top and bottom. The diamond block width is 11 3/4" from the edge of the path on one side of the block to the edge of the block (excluding the path on the other side) . There are five partial diamonds at the top and bottom so I will need strips that are: five half diamond lengths (11 3/4" X 5) plus the last hexagon that was excluded from my diamond measurement. That hexagon is 1 1/4" 5" which is two times the strip width of 2 1/2" The measurement I come up with is 65". I want to have a little wiggle room so that the strip is slightly longer than I need so I'll add another 4" so my strip length is 69". Once I've done the applique and mitered the corners the extra fabric will be trimmed. Attaching the Side Strips for the Border I start with the side strips. I make a mark on the wrong side that is about 4" from the end and them I make marks that are 20 1/8" apart. I place the border on my quilt top with wrong sides up and I line up the marks on the border with the diamonds making sure that the border overlaps the innermost hexagon on the seam allowance. I pin well. I like to thread baste the border to the quilt top but you could just pin with applique pins or you could use applique glue if you prefer. In the next picture is a view of the wrong side of the quilt with the border basted to the quilt top. Notice that the papers and basting thread are still in the quilt top. They can be removed after the quilt has been appliqued to the border. When I thread baste I like to start and stop one hexagon in from the ends. This will make mitering the corners easier. In this picture you see the quilt top from the front; it is basted to the border. I baste the border to the opposite side. If I were hand quilting I would trim the excess border fabric after I had completed the applique but this quilt will be machine quilted so the extra fabric won't present a problem. Attaching the Top and Bottom Strips for the Border The next step is to prepare and baste the top and bottom borders. Once again I make a mark on the wrong side that is about 4" from the end and them I make marks that are 11 3/4" apart. I place the border on my quilt top with wrong sides up and I line up the marks on the border with the diamonds making sure that the border overlaps the innermost hexagon on the seam allowance. I pin well. and thread baste starting and stopping one hexagon from the ends. The corners will look like this. Mitering the Corners I fold one strip in the following diagram and pin. I can now thread baste that seam and the hexagons at the ends that were not basted to the borders. The quilt top is now read to be appliqued to the border. I used a thread that matched the border fabric. I also stitch the miter by hand with tiny stitches and then trim away the excess fabric. The borders are appliqued and the corner is mitered, stitched and trimmed. So there you have it....one more method of finishing the edge of a hexagon quilt. This one works for me and I hope it will work for you too! I stitched my border down by hand but there's no reason why you couldn't do machine applique for a fast and perfect finish! The finished GG hexagon quilt top! This is the backing I've selected for the GG quilt. It will be a very tight squeeze. I've got 4 1/2 yds. but could do with an extra 4". You can see I've also made the binding from the path fabric. I'll keep it with the quilt until I'm ready to use it! For more hexagon inspiration pop over to A Quilting Reader's Garden for Hexie Weekend! Until I post again, happy sewing! Karen H

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Yesterday was a glorious late summer day and I was lucky enough to make the final day of the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. Just one and a half hours drive along the motorway and I was there! I'm not keen on large, crowded spaces and I knew the last day would be relatively quiet. My patience was rewarded and I had plenty of space to enjoy the wonderful quilts. You can click on any of the photos to see the full size image. Probably one of my favourites was the winner of the traditional quilts, beautifully worked by hand in stunning colours. and a closer look! The best in show was a bit angsty for me, but the beauty was again in the detail! Gillian Cooper's Unsung Muses was quite a moving experience to walk through. She says, "Flat and empty figures, left with only traces of past human experience, washed out by the waves of time lapping and crashing over them. People from the past lose definition and personality and merge together. With the world changing so fast it is difficult to understand someone from 50 years ago, let alone 4,000, particularly with the changing role of women. However these people are our past, they are part of us; their lives led the way for us coming into being in our full 21st century understanding." The Tentmakers of Cairo had a huge display of their amazing applique quilts. This blue and green bird themed quilt was probably my favourite and I would have enjoyed taking it home with me as they were for sale, but the price tag was beyond my reach! One of the Egyptian craftsmen was working on a cushion cover - the technique he used was totally different to anything I expected. The backing fabric was thick and very loosely woven, the needle was pretty big and the scissors were huge! No thimbles either just the pattern roughly inked onto the fabric and speedily sewn. A quilt celebrating the work of the Foundling Hospital was something which took my breath away. Using vintage items, and each square representing an abandoned child. The Foundling Museum in London is now on my list of places to visit! This stunning quilt was made with . . . hexagons! Liberty print dresses. (I'm not sure if they were vintage or just made to look so). A group quilt from 178 ladies in the Czech Republic made its way into the Guiness Book of Records. Clearly a quilter lives in this wonky house. I loved the international dimension to the show. This stunning quilt was from Russia and close up you can see the applique is raw edged with two layers, the bottom layer being gold lame. Some of the quilts in the minature section were very tiny indeed! This quilter has my admiration for those tiny triangles. And I would love to visit this coastal landscape. The winner of the minatures was this heavily quilted beauty. the detail! Another stunning hexagon quilt. And lastly I loved this pretty blue and white quilt from Hungary. Thank you Quilters Guild of the British Isles for organising such a wonderful show and an amazing day out! Ros

DIY Modern Hexagon Flower Quilt Duvet Free Sewing Pattern: patchwork hexagon machine sewing tutorial

Hexagon bowl tutorial- quick and easy project to sew; great for fabric and interfacing scraps.

Download the Offset Block Placemat Dimensions PDF. These are the dimensions I used for my Map of the States placemats. Find Elizabeth's Map of the States tutorial here. Download the Easy Cut one inch hexagon PDF. Download the Easy Cut 1.5" hexagon PDF.

Handmade EPP 1" Hexagon Charm Quilt * Finishes at 61.5" x 75.5". * Total number of hexies = 1890 before cutting (yes, I did cut the edge hexies in half). * A Charm/I-spy quilt, only two pairs of duplicate hexies (accidental, of course). * Official name is "I'm Too Hexy For This Quilt" (sorry, it makes me laugh!). Too windy for pics UPDATE: On May 2nd 2014, this quilt won a FIRST PLACE blue ribbon in the Handwork category of our local quilt show! My first ribbon, ever! 2nd UPDATE: In July 2015, this quilt won another FIRST PLACE blue ribbon, in the Modern quilt category (a different town/show)! :)

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Sewing a hexagon quilt duvet cover quickly is possible with this method. You can save money and time while making a gorgeous modern bedding quilt for the family that is cozy, soft, and fluffy warm. The

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This is a lovely quilt block and really easy to make. You will be cutting triangles with this method but don't run off as this is simple using a quilting ruler that has a 60° line. If you don't have a quilting ruler with a 60° line then you can use your cutting mat and we have a tutorial for that if you need it. This block is made using strips of fabric and we use 2½' strips so if you have a fabric jelly roll then this would be ideal. However, bear in mind that this block looks its

This winter I'm in a bit of a sewing slump. I've decided instead of buying more fabric--I want to use what I have on hand, but use it differently. I don't have lots of solids, but I do have lots of fabric. Research: I've been gathering photo ideas to build Modern Scrappy Quilts this year. I'm looking for random--unexpected color combinations and simple construction. Here are some quilt photos from Pinterest that caught my eye. This first one I like. Its simple, simple construction. Take an oversized square, slice it, add some skinny strips, slice it again, and more skinny strips, and then square it up with a 10.5" sq. or 12.5" sq. acrylic template. No rules, just slicing and sewing. No sashing. 📷 The quilt below is so do-able as far as construction. Random. Improv. Beyond the white-black-gray bits for contrast, I see ORANGE dotted with this and that accent colors. Going shopping out of my own stash is fun. Using up lots of sub assemblies already sewn and ready to modify and use in another quilt. I am aware "stash diving" makes a huge mess in the studio. 📷 📷 Calling all Squares . . . calling all squares . . . come in squares. Above is the perfect solution for using up a half yard of this and that. Anything goes . . . but I'm drawn to the use of green, red, and papersack colors in this one. Works for me. 📷 Certainly I've collected lots of silly themes and strange patterns fabrics like this quilt shown above. What is most interesting? Look at the use of red and white fabrics paired with those weird fabrics. Liberally repeating red and white fabrics pull it all together, making sense of all the other weird fabrics that were added. It could just as well be blue and white fabrics paired with the weird fabrics. What I like most about this scrappy quilt is its simple construction, no sashing, alternating four patch. This light airy quilt is so pretty. I think I'll try this quilt concept right away!

Is het weekend en word je heel vroeg wakker, ken je dat? Als je moet werken kom je er niet uit, en is het weekend dan denk je om 06.15 wat zal ik eens gaan doen? In mijn geval; administratie. Dat is veel meer in een winkel dan je zou verwachten. Workshops, Nieuwsbrieven, e-mails, de bank (en dan niet die waar je zo lekker in zitten kunt) Enfin, in pyjama, koffie, aan ons keukentafeltje. Gek schertsend "Kitchen Office" Laptoppie erbij, notitieblokje waar de To Do's instaan. Checken of ik niets vergeten ben... Inmiddels is het half 11 en zit ik nog net zo. Administratie is wel aan de kant en ook dat geeft een opgeruimd gevoel. Maar je bent natuurlijk niet mijn blog aan het lezen om al deze informatie over je uitgestort te krijgen. Quilts! Dat willen we zien. Hexagon Star a Day. Momenteel ben ik wel een beetje de tel kwijt! Maakt ook niet heel veel uit. Ergens rond de 90. Ik ben ook begonnen om er wat aan elkaar te zetten. Met een 90-tal is er wel voldoende variatie om daarmee te kunnen starten. Om op het eind 366 sterren aan elkaar te gaan zetten lijkt mij helemaal niks. Ze zijn niet allemaal door mij gemaakt. Anne, Wilma en Hilde zitten er ook in. "gedoneerd tijdens mijn verjaardagsbee" Te leuk, met naam en toenaam. Van Wilma is het natuurlijk een Spakenburgslapje! Dan de MANDJES! Oh zo leuk om te maken. Kan niet wachten om alles echt goed vast te zetten, zodat ik aan mandje vier kan beginnen. In mijn hoofd heb ik dat ook al klaar...... Alle drie de mandjes op een rijtje..... Daar wil ik vanmiddag echt mee verder. Gisteren kwamen deze twee BEAUTIES naar de winkel. EXCLUSIEF voor Petra Prins en Dutch Quilts in Amsterdam. De balen moeten nog arriveren, dit was een lekker makertje voor ons zelf. Dat is goed gelukt. Je snapt dat ze in de English Baskets zullen verdwijnen. De Kerstboom is inmiddels ook gekocht, De kerstshow in Leusden is weer helemaal geweldig. Dan is het toch wel fijn dat je gewoon op een door de weekse dag even gaan kunt. Het is hier weer koffietijd, Tijd om de laptop te sluiten, jullie een prettig weekend te wensen en om eindelijk te gaan douchen! Tot blogs, Juud Remember; Better finished than perfect!

Free large hexagon quilt pattern & template. Make a simple hexagon quilt with no Y seams with our tutorial. Uses half hexagon quilt pieces.