This fun client quilt is a One Block Wonder (OBW). Taking one long swath of beautiful fabric, cutting that into six identical sections, precisely lining those sections up, then slicing into strips, then slicing those strips into triangles. Each resulting set of triangles is an identical snippet of the fabric, which are then reconstructed into a hexagon (with three options for how that hexie can be organized). Easy, peasy, right? The process, once you get the hang of it, is a lot of fun and almost always results in an amazing quilt.
Each little hexie is like creating a kaleidoscope. Maxine Rosenthal has a fantastic series of books on this process. And I got to lead a class of members of the Canadian Embroiderer's Guild London in making their own OBW quilts.
Maker Kristin, also member of CEG London, brought me her quilt to finish. She had added a sweet little minty green flange and a lovely mid-range purple for the border.
This was entirely ruler-work custom quilting, which is definitely not speedy. The border has double-line beadboard to frame the hexies. The hexies themselves have gentle arcs going through each triangle, creating an 'orange peel' or floral design,
I love the flow of colour Kristin managed with her OBW.
The OBW process that creates these hexies is just magical. There are so many options available in the cutting and construction, that even if quilters started with the same fabric, their finished quilts would all be unique.
The print on the back is so sweet!!
This is the original fabric - a beautiful Kaffe Fasset print.
The quilt was stitched with Isacord's "Lustre" thread.
The display wasn't quite finished here, but we were able to display all of the quilts that arrived from the class for the Textile Showcase. Kristin's is on the far left,