Hexie Quilt

Hexie Pop quilt pattern-A modern Hexie quilt pattern

The Hexie pop quilt pattern is a new modern hexie quilt that I’m so excited to share! It’s available in the shop today.

Hexie Pop Quilt Pattern

Hexie Pop is a fast and easy yardage quilt pattern. This one was sketched up a while ago but never made. It was revisited recently and as soon as I plugged in these brand new Spark basics by Ruby Star Society I had to make it up.

Spark is hitting stores in July! Such a beautiful basics fabric. I decided to make two quilts with these fabrics. One in the cool tones and one in the warm tones.

Half hexie quilt

Hexie Pop is a half hexie quilt which means it uses traditional piecing. No Y seams for this one!

Ruler recommendations

I recommend this hexie ruler or the HexNmore ruler. You can even use a 8.5in triangle ruler like this one. A template is provided but rulers really are much easier to use.

Half Hexie ruler | HexNmore | 8.5in Triangle ruler

I used the HexNmore ruler because I like the easy cut corners it provides. Makes piecing angles so so easy! You can see those corners in the cut out hexies below

Yardage quilt pattern

The Hexie Pop quilt pattern is a yardage quilt. There are a couple of variations. Make it with just three different fabrics or make each row a different print. The quilt pattern includes instructions for both options

Hexie Pop quilt size

Hexie Pop includes all of the quilt sizes! It includes instructions for a baby, throw, twin, queen and king size! So far I’ve made up four different throw sizes. I can’t wait to try the baby size!

Fast and easy quilt pattern

Hexie Pop really does go together nice and fast! I was able to make up an entire throw size top in just a day. If you follow the pressing instructions it’s super slick and no pins are needed 🙂 The seams will all nest together if you follow those instructions.

These two quilts were quilted up by Kaitlyn of Knot and Thread. I let her choose which designs to use and they turned out so fun!

As I’ve mentioned already, I’ve made quite a few of these fun hexie quilts 😉 I’ll be blog these two below soon! It turned out so pretty in the VandCo Ombres.

Materials Used:
Hexie Pop quilt pattern
Spark by Ruby Star Society
Background: Grid by Ruby Star Society
Hexie ruler: HexNmore
Pieced on a Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Knot and Thread

Hexie Rows Quilt Pattern _ A modern hexagon quilt

Hexie Rows quilt pattern is a fun and modern hexagon quilt pattern that pieces easily and quickly. I’m excited to introduce this modern hexie quilt.

Love Patchwork and Quilting Magazine first featured Hexie Rows Quilt. Several more sizes have been added and you can pick up a copy in the pattern shop.

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English Paper Pieced Hexagon Quilt Progress

Somehow I haven’t blogged about my hexie quilt yet! So here it is 🙂

This is my never ending project. Or at least it sometimes feels that way 😉 I started my hexies so I would have something to do in the evenings when I just want to sit down but keep my hands busy. Plus we take a lot of road trips so the fact that I could take quilting on the go was pretty sweet. It really is more about the process and less about the end result.

I started piecing my first hexagon for this quilt just over a year ago. I’m aiming for a throw size quilt.
My hexagon template is 1″. (That means each side is 1″.)

This quilt is made up entirely of 2.5″ scraps from other completed quilts.

You don’t need much to get started with English Paper Pieced Hexies. Here’s what I recommend:

Hexagon Templates

I use Geta’s templates from Geta’s Quilting Studio
I know some people print on heavier card stock but I print on plain old copy paper.
Punch a hole in each one so they are easier to remove later on.

Needles and Thread

I’ve been using Hiroshima Tulip Sewing Needles. With a good needle you hardly need a thimble. When I do use a thimble I use these flexible thimbles.
I used the 40wt thread pictured to baste some of my hexies and then switched over to Aurifil 50wt for the rest.

Fabric

I’ve seen others who cut their fabric to the shape of the hexagon template but I keep mine square since it’s faster. If you scroll down you can see the backs of my hexagons. The backs are not the prettiest but you don’t see that anyways 😉 For these 1″ hexagons, 2.5″ fabric squares work well.

Basting

I’m going with thread basting for my hexagons. I baste on the backs so the thread doesn’t have to be removed. I briefly tried glue basting but didn’t care for it as much even though it can go much faster.

I started out making flower shapes and then proceeded to connect the flowers into larger shapes. Looking back it would be better to make square panels since I ended up with oddly shaped panels that I’m currently working on squaring up.

The back can be as fun to look at as the front 🙂

I currently have these two larger panels and a few smaller ones. I’m working on connecting them together and making a larger rectangle. I’ll either continue to add to that or put a solid border around it so I can finish this project and move on to something else!

Have you joined the Hexie craze? Any pointers or questions?