Alex Loves This Antique Hexie Quilt

The Moda Exhibit in Houston 2015 featured a collection of antique quilts. Alex loves this quilt from that exhibit. What is not to love?? This antique beauty features hexies and fabrics with muted colors radiating from a medallion center. See the description sign at the bottom for more information.

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#12 Dee G 2017-08-09 17:45

Oh my!! This is beautiful. I wish I could find something like this for myself. I am working on Hexies by hand. I may start seeing how I like doing them on the sewing machine. I have quilting friends that give me their scraps for my Hexies. I only have 3 blocks finished but just working on basting different size hexies.

#11 Jo Ann Carroll 2017-08-08 12:04

Just beautiful. I have collected many antique hexie quilt tops and squares to hopefully finish in my lifetime?

#10 Linda 2017-08-07 04:47

I love Hexies, my friend and quilting bee buddy bought me some tiny hexie templates from New England on her last quilting holiday.
I'm very lucky to live just 2 miles away from the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham UK where the Festival of Quilts starts this Thursday, so I'll be buying lots of material to add to my stash. (better take the credit card)

#9 Waggs 2017-08-06 23:21

Can anyone give an approximate age/date for this quilt? I picked up a hexie quilt at an antique mall. It's not so well thought out as this lovely design, but the fabrics look from about the same era. It looks as though the quilter started out with a center motif then ran out of some of the fabrics and kind of ran off helter skelter. It's all hand pieced and someone at a much later date took the top and combined it with a flannel "batting" (old, worn blanket?) then used an old sheet for the backing. It was never quilted, but was tied with a much newer, bright, fluorescent pink, acrylic yarn. I've taken out the yarn and am mending the piecing where rough handling has pulled out some stitching. I think I may be trying to make a "silk purse out of a sow's ear" as my grandma used to say, but it makes me feel good to work on someone's "use it up, make it do" quilt.

#8 judydegraff 2017-08-06 17:54

wow! This is awesome! I love all the different segments and directional parts. My first hexie was fin. in 1992 (hand pieced/hand quilted) one year to piece, one to rest and one to quilt); another is in process and I would very much like to finish it off with something like this. Don't use papers, just mark s/a to hand piece. Love intricate patterns that I can enjoy while I work at it for months at a time. Judy DeGraff, Fortuna, CA

#7 Cyncrull 2017-08-06 16:24

Now hexies aren't my favorite, and I don't think I would ever do one. But, I will say I like this the best of any quilt I've seen with the little hexagons. Really unique.

#6 Del 2017-08-06 14:50

Lots of different ways to join the hexies, really nice, Thanks Alex

#5 littlestitches 2017-08-06 11:24

I love this quilt.. My passion is hand work and hexies is my favorite..

#4 Luann 2017-08-06 10:22

Absolutely gorgeous. a window into quilting history!

#3 Michele M 2017-08-06 09:40

A true piece of art - and EVERYTHING I love about hexies!

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