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| 1970s Hexagons made of double-knit polyester |
My friend Mary Kanski from the Northwest Quilters called to tell me about a quilt she'd seen at the Tigard Flea Market. It was a double-knit polyester quilt made with many small hexagons, and it was on sale for half price! So I went to the flea market today, and here's what I found.
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| Detail photo taken with a flash |
It's a wonderful double-knit polyester hexagon quilt with an overall concentric diamond pattern. Wow! The man who was selling it looked a little like Santa Claus. I asked if he knew anything about it, and he'd gotten it at a garage sale here in Oregon. He thought it was from the 1970s because the material was the same as that from the clothing of the time.
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| Binding is rolled from back to front |
I don't think there's a single quilt maker today who would dare make a quilt like this out of double-knit. It's such a stretchy material, and working with it must've been difficult. There is a single line of quilting along the inside edge of each row, giving the quilt a three-dimensional effect. Again, wow! What a great find! Thank you, Mary!!
Did you actually purchase the quilt? It must weigh a ton! And will wear like iron.
ReplyDeleteWow...when the photos first came up it looked like rickrack! Cannot imagine sewing all that poly...but the colors really are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWow! Gorgeous! I have a couple polyester quilts in my little collection but none as outstanding as this one. It must have been very difficult to sew those hexagons together but the effect is like a ripple hexagon rim around rim around rim. I love it!
ReplyDeleteYes, I bought the quilt. It doesn't weigh as much as you might think, and it's held up well. It does have kind of a rick rack or ripple effect because of how it's quilted. A very clever way to take advantage of the stretchy quality of the fabric.
ReplyDeletePerfect for your collection. It is a very striking quilt that I really like. Nice score!!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you like it. When I saw it, it had your name written all over it. I wll keep an eye out on my trip to the thrift stores.
ReplyDeleteMary K- You're the best!!
ReplyDeleteI gotta know: How in the world does one even make something like this? I have a bunch of double knit fabric left over from a family member's estate and I don't want to just throw it away. I've been told that a quilt made with double knit fabric will last forever, but I cannot transpose a 1/4" seam on cotton into double knit in my brain. Help! Books? Tutorials?
ReplyDeleteBy the time I bought it, the information from the maker was long gone. It was made some time in the 1970s and I bought it around 2012 I think. If you want to make a quilt out of those fabrics, ask someone who made quilts in the 1970s. That would not be me, though.
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