hexagons

This quilt will have a very long gestation period. This is the second of two sets of quilt pieces that Hallie is letting me finish. These are entirely hand-pieced in white thread by someone with very neat and clean hand-sewing, and the fabrics are 1930s — many of them are probably feed sacks. Like ‘Continuity,’ Hallie’s family thinks these were made either by her great-aunt or her great-grandmother. Any more specific information has already been lost.

There are not quite enough completed hexagons to form a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt, so I went to Atlanta and shopped for some 1930s reproduction fabrics that would blend well in color and design with these fabrics. I believe I will need to tea-dye some of them to speed the appearance of aging; the fabrics look right, but they look too new.