How to finish a hexie quilt

A couple of weeks ago, I showed off three 12" tops I'd made, as part of my new obsession with English Paper Piecing (EPP). The centers are Alex Anderson's festive pomegranate fabric. That blog post included an EPP tutorial. I was deciding whether to combine them into one tablerunner, or finish them separately. Since then, I chose the latter. Here's #1, finished: The second one is also hand-quilted with motifs inspired by the central fabric: And below is the third, which my DD pointed out has…

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This is a major scrapbuster for fabric! Scrappy hexagons are a bit tedious, but they will use up your smallest scraps and strips that you can’t bear to just throw away. Plus, how great is it …

I made this English paper pieced hexagon quilt for my fifth-born child’s first birthday. If I had more time, I would finished off the quilt edge by making a hexagon facing (see Bad Skirt for …

Havel's Sewing on Instagram: "Now that I’ve shown you three ways to cut your hexies for English Paper Piecing this weekend using several Havels quitly tools, let’s glue baste our hexies! 😃 The 1” Tack It Easy press keeps glue off your fingers when basting. You can find those on my website. I hope you enjoyed my Havels Sewing IG Take Over this weekend and learning more about my four favorite Havels quilty tools that are a staple in my studio. Feel free to follow me over at @seams_sew_me…

In my last posting about this project, I was searching for a suitable border fabric. I tried several colours, including some that were suggested in the comments to that post, but in the end I chose…

Just Stitch The Finished Hexies Together for a Completed Project! Some quilters like making hexies and some don’t. They’re fiddly and require precision. Plus, once they’re made you need to applique them down to a background or carefully stitch them together into a quilt top. These quilt-as-you-go hexies still require precision, but once they’re done …

I really liked this tutorial by badskirt on finishing your hexagon quilts , only my hexagon quilt is so large I needed to slightly adapt th...