Grandmother's Flower Garden

Grandmother's Flower Garden is an iconic hexagon quilt pattern made from clusters of hexagons: one center hexagon surrounded by a first ring of six hexagons (the 'petals'), often a second ring (the 'path'), and sometimes a third ring. The clusters are assembled using English paper piecing and joined together to fill the quilt. The pattern dates to the early 19th century and was enormously popular in the 1920s–1940s. Modern hexie quilters often use precut hexagon papers and glue basting to speed assembly.