Hexagons gone mad

Dear Prudence by Gum Valley Patchwork

 

My mum's dedication to English paper Piecing and all things hexagon has lead me on a bit of a web-crawl and I've just discovered this beautiful and amazing quilt. I can't believe how small the pieces are!

Hexagons 2

Here's another of my mum's hexagon quilts. This was taken a couple of years ago.

I've got a feeling this quilt top got unpicked and the pathway fabric changed.  Must quizz Granny and find out what she did with it.

Here come the hexagons.

Butterfly garden quilt by Noela Lester

I'm very excited because my mum is moving to Bendigo tomorrow and I will have a stitching partner in crime living nearby.

Mum is a hexagon-aholic and I'm quilt-sitting all her completed quilts until she is settled. Her mission is to do hexagons every which way possible using the English paper-piecing method. This is the latest completed quilt.

Centre - fussy cut butterflies

The central "flower" consists of fussy cut butterflies surrounded by a round of alternating diamonds and triangles (see here in sage green), then rings of hexagons radiate outwards with a diamond at the end of each "row".

There are fussy cut butterflies in the outer, central rings and in the outermost borders.

There are two rounds of 2-tone 6-pointed stars which twirl and keep your eye moving around the quilt.

For now it rests on the sofa in my sewing room so I can enjoy it.

I might have a crack at writing a pattern for it too!

rings around the garden

2-tone stars