Happiness
is a hexie quilt
Jackie White
Have you discovered fabric hexagons, or hexies for short? Every quilter needs to know the
happy giddy feeling of quilting with hexies!
This article boasts of hexie happiness for any
quilter. See how you can use hexies in modern
quilts or as quilted embellishments and Also
a way to do a hexie in 15 seconds flat! No joke,
that’s how fast I can do one using this simple,
fast and modern method! Ah yes…happiness
is a hexie quilt!
The traditional way to use hexies was to create
hundreds of them and stitch them together
into a pattern usually done by color. A tiny
blind stitch was done to join each hexagon to
its mate.
With modern quilting and different trends,
hexagons can still be found in this beautiful
traditional manner but are also popping up in
new and unique ways.
First off would be the way they are created.
While still most use the paper method in
which a larger hexagon is glued or thread basted to a smaller paper shaped hexagon, there’s
a simple and very fast method of making them.
I created a 2 minute video with my 10 year old
son as the camera man to show you how. Now
watch carefully, we even got photobombed
by cows!
Fabric hexies ready to use.
Tutorial on how to make fast and easy
hexagons (hexies) from circles.
One of the great perks with hexies is you can
take them anywhere and work on them whenever you have a moment. I pack my circles and
needle and thread in a pencil case and tuck
it in my purse. To date, I have made them at
the hairdresser’s, garage, sports games, dentist
office, and even the emergency room. Literally
they go where you go!
Photos by Jackie White.
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