Morris Hexagon: Rings of Hexies

Barbara S's hexagons on the design wall. She has a plan.

Plan in EQ7

See the pattern here:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/04/morris-hexathon-introduction.html

These concentric rings of hexagons were a rather common

idea in the first half of the 19th century.

Quilt dated 1804 by Rebeckah Morrison.

Collection of Natalie Norris,Virginia.

Fussy cut flowers in the alternate rings.

A black & white photo of one signed M. Clapper,

shown in the magazine The Clarion years ago.

The rings of white hexagons are filled with a 

sampler of stuffed quilting. It was attributed to Maryland.

A chintz bordered version from Carolyn Miller's collection.

Quite similar.

From Petra Prins's collection.

Maybe late-19th century.

This one's hard to make out from the photo...rings of white

 alternating with red and green stars.

You can get a similar effect with a lot more work

if you alternate rings of dark and light hexagon blocks.

From Cow Hollow Antiques at Ruby Lane.

It'd be worth the effort though.

Margaret Stanga 

Louisiana Project.

Quilt Index

Frederica Josephson quilt, about 1850.

Collection of the National Trust of Australia.

This is the original of this impressive quilt.

http://www.icssydney.com.au/index.php?id=628

Replica of the Frederica Josephson quilt by

The Fairholme Quilters Guild.

http://quiltersguildnsw.blogspot.com.au/p/replica-frederica-josephson-coverlet.html

Many repros of Frederica's quilt have been made.

It's sometimes called Candied Hexagons for a 2005 pattern from Australian Quilters Companion by Kerry Dear.