Quilting hexagons

Baby Quilt

A special little man will soon be entering the world as our nephew and I really wanted to make him a quilt that was different than just my usual squares. I had come across a quilt made out of large hexagons and was convinced that I could do it. Turns out.... it was even easier than I thought. I had to share it because I am soooooo proud of it.

I started with some scrap fabric and did a trial run with a couple of hexagons to see if it would work like I thought. I cut a hexagon from some paper and used it as a template to get my hexagons cut.

I thought it looked perfect so I found the cutest fabric by Michael Miller and started my masterpiece.

You can see the drawing I made with a key so that I knew how many pieces to cut and I could get that all out of the way. I ended up folding my hexagon template in half and measuring the height of it. Then I cut strips of fabric out and just used the template to cut the angles of the "half hexagons" (Trapezoids, you can see above how they are sewn together to make a hexagon) I just sewed each row of trapezoids and slowly it all came together to make a bunch of hexagons.

Finished with the front, it looked like this.

Adding the batting together proved difficult when having two toddlers. They always make this interesting :)

I decided to sew in the ditch so there would be an easy pattern to follow and a great design on the back.

Then I finished with a solid binding and I was so pleased with how it turned out! Cannot wait to see out little nephew on it:).