Monday 2 September 2013

On my travels I - a finished quilt

Apologize if you have seen this quilt in the making once to often but I promise these here are the last photos. Why ? Well because it is now finished.


I started this beauty about 13 month ago at the first Fat Quarterly retreat where Tacha and Brioni taught me EPE with hexagons. The plan in the class was to make a cushion but I when I had finished my first set of hexies I  had already changed my plan to make a baby sized quilt because I was so taken by what grew in front of my eyes.



They do say EPE is addictive and I can attest to that. There is something very satisfying about making hexagons.


I quilted it by hand along the edges of each hexagon which was a bit painful to be honest. The quilt back is a gorgeous print from Windham Fabrics called 'Presents Books and Letters' that was gifted to me but is or was available at Tikki. I kept the binding simple and used one of the Muslin Mate prints I had in my stash as I don't want anything to distract from the beauty of the quilt top.


My plan was to only work on this quilt while traveling, hence the final name for it: On my travels I (you noticed the I, yep there will be more additions to the series). I stitched on the Eurostar on my way to see my parents in Germany. I stitched even more hours when staying at my parents. Then I stichted on airplanes to far flung countries, on holidays, on other train journeys through the UK and also a little bit at home in my Garden (full disclosure, short journey from indoors to outdoors, might that be a little bit of traveling ?).


So I put the last stitches on the other day and added the binding this week and when I saw the finished piece I was even more in love with it than I was at the beginning. So much so that I already have started work on a large king size version of this but with 5" squares and NOT hexagons. I know Brioni would do that with Hexies in about 6 weeks but alas I can't and won't. I am however convinced that a large  quilt in squares will look just as good.


I have cut all the remaining fabric I had from this quilt and the collection of Moda Muslin Made I had (by the way the Fat Quatershop has a bundle of the newer editions available here) and already went to the Cloth House and bought a few pieces of rough linen to add to this. It will be glorious, I am sure of it.


This quilt will be earmarked for a yet to be announced niece of nephew.......(so glad my brother does not read this blog).

Previous posts regarding this quilt can be found:
here, here, and here.

17 comments:

  1. It's stunning Judith and I agree that a similar one with squares will be also wonderful. Lucky new baby to get it, a perfect gift.

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  2. This quilt is outstandingly beautiful Judith - and all the more so for knowing how much work has gone into it. The hand quilting must have been quite a job but it was worth it. Gorgeous x

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  3. What a beauty J! Even I would sleep soundly under that calming quilt! Jxo

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  4. Beautiful in its sublime subtlety. You can show it to me a few more times yet...

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  5. Oh it's beautiful! Like warm porridge on a winter morning :)

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  6. Oh my! Such a lovely, impressive accomplishment! The texture resulting from the hexies and the hand quilting makes the quilt look so soft! I will have to start a traveling project!

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  7. This little quilt will be so timeless. Beautiful low volume fabrics. I bet you got a few questions on the train. I agree with them being addictive too! I have been doing hexies for 12 years and will do them forever!

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  8. This is such a beautiful calm and cosy looking quilt. Gorgeous!

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  9. i usually EPP with lots of contrast, but this is a fab combination

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  10. Lovely fabric choices - it works so well.

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  11. Such a beauty, the colours are perfect. I'm almost tempted to have another go at EPP.

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  12. This is gorgeous! I love the hexie fabrics and hand stitching and the backing is perfect :)

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  13. This quilt is such an achievement - all those wonderful hexagons and hand-quilting. Very nicely done.

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  14. I think its the most restful, calming quilt I have ever seen. Its gorgeous and utterly inspiring.

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  15. Wow! This is a beautiful quilt - the detail is exquisite!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us all :)

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  16. I adore this low volume hexagram quilt. Bravo! I am making my first hexie quilt right now and am stumped at how to finish it. Did you just bite the bullet and trim? Or did you sew 1/2 hexies along the edge to even it out a bit first?

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  17. Oh so pretty quilt and cushion! I visited those site you linked to so I could get some of those linens, but nothing doing. Now I NEED to search the web/LQS to find some of my own!

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