Hexagons

I had always avoided hexagons, preferring the slim delicacy of octagonal slices to the plumpness of 60-degree segments, but Maxine Rosenthal’s book One-Block Wonders opened my eyes to their design possibilities: nesting shapes eliminate square corners, freeing the quilt from the rigidity of the block.

Purple Rain

Purple Rain

The only vertically designed hexagon quilt to date, made from yardage of a border print split with a friend, whose quilt is largely red and unrecognizable as a sibling.

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Crystallized Iris

Crystallized Iris

A dark, rather unattractive print of large-scale bearded iris revealed a lovely glow when deconstructed and reassembled in a whole new way.

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