I spy with my little eye... a tricycle, a monster, a fox, and a finished quilt!
Last week I read about Ali's contest the
Festival of Hexagons and it was exactly the hot poker I needed to light a fire under me and get going on the I Spy quilt I've had on my to-do list forever.
I've been
hoarding collecting a few Heather Ross fabrics (many thanks to my friends
Courtney and
Christine) and all of the other adorable prints came from the I Spy Fabric Swap and the Spoonflower Fabric swaps I participated in last year.
To make life easier for myself, I used my Accuquilt hexie die cut to cut out the paper hexagons. Cutting those out by hand is so tedious and frankly, I don't have time for that so using my Accuquilt die cutter was the way to go. I must admit I bought the hexie die exactly for this purpose!
I had originally planned for this to be a small wall hanging but the more hexies I made, the bigger the project became, and it seemed a quilt was the way to go.
I'm glad too because now the kids can lay down on the floor and play I Spy. If it was on the wall I am not sure it would actually get used very much.
I spy a scooter, a robot, a cupcake, an owl...
The hexies are machine appliqued and machine quilted in an echo pattern around the star. I was ever so thankful for my
auto-lift-easy pivot function on my presser foot as I sewed all of these on.
For the back I used one of my all time favorite IKEA prints- I'm in LOVE with text prints!
Maybe a text print swap is in order next!
The quilt measures 46" x 52".
Thanks Ali for motivating me!
This is the first big contest I've entered so fingers crossed. There are some really great prizes up for grabs! Pop on over to
check out all of the entries.
Wish me luck!
xo,
Jennifer
59 comments:
I love this so very much. The little bit of space between the hexies just makes it *perfect*
What an amazing treasure for your kids! love it! good luck - keeping my fingers crossed.
So cute! You have so many wonderful fabrics in this! Did you cut away the back to remove the papers, or what was your method?
I'm sure you'll win Jennifer! It is absolutely awesome! You really amaze me with our talent!
Adorable!
Ótimo ficou lindo.Parabéns.
This is fabulous! I have a new grandchild arriving in October and lots of I spy fabrics! I'm using your idea, thanks!!
Really love it. I need to add it to my to do list. I think you are going to win the contest!
Absolutely adorable. Kids just love to play I Spy. Love you did it in hexies. :)
I love it!!! And so glad my scraps came in handy. I have been saying I need to do an I spy quilt with my squares for about 2 years now. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love your quilt and the idea of a text swap!
This is fabulous! One of my favorite I-spy quilts ever!
This is a fantastic hexie project. FANTASTIC. I love everything about it, Jennifer. Good luck in the contest!!
I love seeing your kids with it. I didn't realize it was so big when I saw it on flickr today. Very lovely and so fun. Great use for the die cut too.
This is so wonderful!! I love it. Perfect and what a great thing for your kids to have!!
original and fantastic--I smell a winner!
wow!!! what a fantastic quilt, so,so very lovely and fun. Good luck in the contest.
I love your quilt. It is fantastic. I will have to start hoarding some fabrics to make one like this.
Have you thought about printing some of the pictures onto paper (photograph the hexies, print them out and then back them with pretty paper) so the children can play a find-the-picture game. You could back the cards with text paper.
Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful creation.
This is absolutely incredible, Jennifer. I can't tell you how much I love it! Such a special, special quilt!
This is so fun! Great job!
What a cute quilt!!
I knew it would be fabulous! Love it.
What a great design - well done you!
That is absolutely adorable, i love it, and i'm really pleased to see a proper quilter who isn't afraid to use the ikea prints. I love this text print too, its gorgeous, you're no fabric snob, and we need to see more of that!! Angela : )
Oh Wow! This is just amazing!
what a fantastic variation on the i-spy quilt! Love it!!
Oh it's stunning - beautiful blocks (so many I-Spy blocks give me the heebee-jeebees!) x
beautiful Jenifer...you keep doing things to make me want to try hexies!!!
OMG *_* this is an amazingly beautiful quilt!!! can't stop staring at it.. wonderful!!!!
I love your quilt . What a lovely educational , but fun children's quilt , great for building language skills and later will be great for sounds and letters .
What a great little I spy quilt - love it!
It's gorgeous! Love the border.
Jennifer - This is beautiful and I bet the kids LOVE it. I made the needle book from Hexa-Go-Go and I'm itching to start another hexie project. I just need to decide what it will be. The links on the site are beautiful, but I really love your quilt and the fussy cutting of the I Spy hexies. Great job!
This turned out so cute, Jen! I know your kids and their friends will love playing with this-so many fun things to find!
Love this! And please do a text print swap!
Oh my goodness, I'm freaking out here!! I LOVE the star shape- never seen a hexie star before and it just took me at first sight :) I now know what to do with my I spy charms :) You win in my book- good luck!!
Fab idea - it is one gorgeous quilt that will create hours of fun!
It's super cute! And I love that kids can sit on the floor and look at it!
Wow! That looks like so much fun! I'm glad you made it into a quilt. Your kids are going to love it.
I love hex and I think the machine applique is a really nice way to incorporate them. What I really love about this quilt is that bright blue (aqua?) border with grey and white. It's gorgeous!
I love hex and I think the machine applique is a really nice way to incorporate them. What I really love about this quilt is that bright blue (aqua?) border with grey and white. It's gorgeous!
what a great idea using the hexies for an I spy! love it.
also love the idea of a text swap...
What an adorable quilt! I love it :) Good luck with your entry!!
So cute! I have a question about the fabric cutter. I mostly make donation quilts using 5" squares of some variety. I have been thinking of buying a GoBaby with the 5" cutter. Is there a lot of waste? Cutting fabric is my biggest challenge in the quilting process and I wondered if a cutter would help me be more accurate.
Amazing. Who would think to space the hexies out? Love it.
Oh I love it, fab way to use all those charms, so cute!
That is a fantastic way to do a I spy quilt. Just love the hexes.
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So amazing and having the children playing on it makes it even more special!!!!!
This is the cutest I Spy quilt ever! Love how you did the hexies. Good job
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i'm a new addict, working on my first epp and looking for new epp projects! love your hexie star! thank for sharing!
Good luck!
This is amazing Jennifer!!
Brilliant idea ; )
This is adorable! Never seen a hexie star before! I would be interested in text fabric swap!
/VERY cool quilt!
Such a cute idea for all your charm squares. I bet the kids like this one a lot
Put me down for a text fabric swap. I just bought something fabulous this week with ampersands, and wondered if there's something wrong with me for loving text prints.
And, the hexie I Spy is darling. Thanks for sharing!
That is really inspiring! i love this sooo much!!! I am voting you over at asquaredw....
Jennifer - How is the IKEA fabric? I saw that text print the other day and loved it, but was worried about the quality of the material. Love to hear your thoughts!
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