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For me, one of the highlights of QuiltWeek in Paducah is the Rotary’s Antique quilt show. This year it was curated by
Mary Kerr and featured hexies. Follow me beyond the orange cheese doodle to see some of the quilts.
Here’s an 1920’s Amish example.
Lots of little hexies. If I remember correctly, this was c. 1820-1840. Which was the end of the paper piecing era until it was resurrected ~1970. In between they were pieced with running stitch. Of course, this is in general. There are always excptions.
Rhombus hexies.
Silk & wool hexies. Not all hexie quilts were pieced out of cotton. The silks are badly shredded due to the iron oxide in the dye. Which was added to increase weight as silks were once sold by weight.
This quilt is from Bill Volkening’s collection.
We know the maker & date as they were appliqued in the border. That red print used in the hexies? It’s not. It’s badly shredded red and what is left is what was preserved by the quilting.
Christmas hexies. IIRC, this is c. 1940s.
Diamond hexies. Prior to ~1920 the hexie patterns were simply known as diamond mosaic. Once patterns began to be published they were given all sorts of names.
I liked the red and greenish-yellow in this one.
I loved the colors in this trip around the world setting.
Many of the hexies in this quilt were fussy cut.
Here are some different takes on using hexies.
Oh, this one was cool. Hexies in a 7 Sisters setting.
This was a wow! quilt. To map out all these pieces.
Closeup of the center medallion:
Inner border motif:
Outer border:
And finally, guess the era.
1970s. A noticeable difference between this and earlier quilts is the use of a single fabric for the green, for the brown, for the orange. They just weren't as hung up about matching exactly before - either using a variety of shades of one color (as in the 7 sisters quilt) or close enough (as in the Amish quilt) - run out of blue, use grey, etc.
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