Quilter 65

[ATTACH=CONFIG]587108[/ATTACH]A challenge to myself. Do it all by hand from start to finished top. Little did I know when I started about 4 years ago, that it would take this long. I had never heard of La Pass, otherwise I would have devoted my time to that. To be fair, I didn't work on it except for evenings until the past two weeks when I saw the end in sight. It measures 96x96 on the widest part. I learned a lot about color. Didn't have a clue when I started and now I would do differently. Especially buy more ombre fabric. Didn't have a pattern just a photo on the internet, had never worked with hexis exclusively. Has anyone bound this sort of project maintaining the integrity of the hexagons? Any worthwhile tips because it took two hours just to staystitch around this critter before taking to the hand quilter. [ATTACH=CONFIG]587109[/ATTACH]

Chasezzz

Wow...that's a lot of work and a beautiful end product. No idea how to bind maintaining angles on edge hexis (birth method would have needed to be done before getting ready for hand quilter).

JuneBillie

Your quilt is so beautiful, and you sure put in a lot of fine work on it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

givio

You could still add background triangles after it's quilted-- at least that would make fewer Y areas on the bound edge...

lynnie

I've appliqued the end to a straight piece of fabric. also on another one, i just folded the edges over and met them and sewed by hand the outer edges.

Kitsie

Here's tutorial by Marci Baker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPe_84GBfY&t=14s

Sorry, not supposed to be under lynie's!!

Tartan

Beautiful! Are you going to fill in the corners to make it square or leave it as a hexagon? You can use more hexagons and lay them face down on top of the last row, machine sew the outside edge and turn them right side out and hand stitch the rest of the hexagon to the backing. You can also applique the whole hexagon to a white or pink background to make it square. You can lay the whole top upside down on the backing fabric and pillowcase the whole thing but that would be tricky.

RJLinkletter

I hand stitched it all to a piece of fabric when I did a similar 2 Year project. It was my first ever attempt at any form of quilting and I didn't Know anything about binding though so that bit is/ was a mess

RJLinkletter

Here is mine

Pique

I have a scrappy grandmothers flower garden from the 1940’s I believe. Each flower is attached to the next flower with a ring of tiny green diamonds. The quilt is finished with a narrow handmade bias in the in same green as the diamonds. Very dainty. If I knew how to post a picture I would.