King Size Hex Quilt

  • I collected French and Belgium linen. Linens from Eastern Europe. Indigo from Africa and Japan.

  • This was inspired by the letter x. The traditional hex quilt uses much smaller hexes. I wanted to make a large quilt and much faster so I used a larger 5” hex pattern. This graphical design evolved with the dark blue x as the foundation.

  • I made up a piecing technique used to make this quilt. I cut a thick leather 5 inch hex and then ironed the linen pieces around the template. Traditionally the hexes are tacked into shape but the scale of these hexes made that approach untenable. Each hex was hand sewn together.

    Quilting was done without batting with thick Sashiko style thread. I stitched “in-the-ditch” following the seams.

    Binding on the straight edges were hand tacked together. The zig-zag edges were hand sewn with linen facing to maintain the shape of the hexes.

Five inch linen hexes hand pieced and hand quilted

This quilt was brought to you by the letter X. I didn’t think I would be excited about graphic, high contrast quilts. Turns out I was wrong. The lines on this one move the eye around it. The indigo shifts in depth and finish throughout the piece.

My collection of these special fabrics were but impossible to use because they were too special. I needed something special to turn them into that I would use and enjoy every day. It’s a hard thing to cut into a special piece of fabric, especially one that has been hand woven, hand dyed.

This was planned for my youngest child, but my spouse liked it so I gave it to our room. It had to be expanded from a twin size quilt to a king. I started this quilt in 2019 and completed it in 2022, working in fits and starts. I ran out of my collected indigo pieces so the last portion were dyed in my own vat.

The linen was thick that the quilt top was incredibly heavy so I omited the batting. The quilting is hand stitched in the ditch with thick Olympus sashiko style thread.

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  • Designing the quilt

  • Early Days

  • Hand Sewing Hexes

  • Twin Sized

  • Detail

  • Quilt Back

  • back

  • Studio

  • Alternate back design

  • back

  • me

  • inside

  • inside

  • sewing detail

  • Pin Basted

  • Pin Basted

  • Quilting Detail

  • Quilting back

  • Me

  • Back Stitching

  • Front Detail

  • Front Detail

  • Back

  • Binding

  • Binding

  • Binding with facing on back

  • Working on the quilt

  • Me

  • Indigo Hex Quilt

  • quilting detail

  • Finished

  • Finished

  • Bedroom

  • indigos

  • Mark

  • Quilt signature

  • portrait