gobucks7

I am praying that someone on this amazing site can help me with my problem. Yesterday, I got a request from a lady who I have made 4 t-shirt rag quilts for in the past....for a soccer ball t-shirt rag quilt with hexagon cut from the t-shirts.....Now here is my problem: I have never made a hexagon quilt before so I went on google and searched for some sites to see if it's possible to do this. Well they have pics but I can't find and instructions on how you sew the 6 sided hexagons together. Now, with a rag quilt you sew it together with the seam in front not in the back like regular quilts. So Ladies....Is it possible to do this for her??? Does anyone have any suggestions, advice, etc???? Thank You all in advance....I will try and post a pic of what she sent me....here they are. Thanks Again

MarionsQuilts

I did a hexie quilt once (once!!!!) There are a lot of Y-seams - if you are comfortable doing those, you won't have any problems. Good luck!

Peckish

Yes, I agree, you will have Y seams. The only way to avoid Y seams is to cut some of the hexagons in half and sew them that way, but since your customer wants you to use t-shirts, that's probably out of the questions.

However, since you're doing a rag-style quilt, it probably won't matter much if your Y seams don't match perfectly, the rag will hide it and no one will know!

lynnie

the y seams aren't so bad. I've done a few 4 EPP quilts, and in raggy quilts, it will be easy for you. go for it.

Geri B

Go to Kaye woods tute on y seams...might help.......

just janet

You couldn't pay me enough to make a t-shirt quilt out of hexagons. I've made 4 t-shirt quilts, one for each of my grand -daughters and even cutting each one square, it was a job. Didn't rag them though and I did put sashing between.

luvspaper

The other issue is that you are going to need to majorly stabilize the tshirts and that may make the ragging pretty impossible.... She may need to pick either the shape OR the ragging