My quilting practice is firmly rooted in the generations of crafty women who came before me. My paternal Grandma Erika Meier Schoenhals would have approached a hexagon design by quilting double knit polyester in the traditional "Grandmother's Flower Garden" pattern. My maternal Grandma Flossie Pearl Sperry Terrel would have crocheted "Granny Hexagons" for her afghans. I come to the hexagon inspired by a digitized 21st century design. In this piece I challenged myself to illustrate a three dimensional hexagonal mesh through the interplay of light, color, and size in a traditional quilt form. I drafted an original, large-scale, English paper-pieced pattern which was handstitched and appliqued. While I cannot share this quilt with my late grandmothers, I like to imagine that they would have loved to see where the granddaughter's flower garden grows.
