Grandmother's Flower Garden is one of the best known quilt patterns. But many quilters are convinced that hexagons are tedious and difficult.

Not so!  Quilt Engineer Kaye Wood has developed cutting and sewing techniques that eliminate all of the tediousness and insures ease, accuracy and success.

Log Cabin Tablerunner

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Path Around The Garden

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There are many different ways to cut hexagons-most of them require drawing cutting and/or sewing on the fabric. Many quilters use paper or plastic templates and can only make one size hexagon. You won't believe how easy hexagons are when you follow Kaye's cutting technique; you can make any size without ever drawing on the fabric. Imagine making just two cuts on a fabric strip using Kaye's Starmaker® 6 Master Template! That's how easy hexagons can be when you follow Kaye's hexagon cutting techniques.

Quilters have said for years that sewing hexagons together must be done by hand. Not So! Even small hexagons can easily be sewn by machine. And perfect inside points happen automatically, so no ripping out one or more stitches, and no taking one more stitch by hand.

Kaye's sewing techniques include Anchoring seams by sewing all the way from one end of the hexagon to the next. Just follow Kaye's Hexagon Sewing Rule: "If there is no previous seamline on the edge you are sewing, then sew all the way to the edge of the piece. If there is no previous seamline, then sew from the seamline".

The projects start with the basic Flower, which is made up of a center hexagon with 6 surrounding hexagons. The Flower is then squared up and shown in an interesting wallhanging. Kaye's cover quilt, called the Patch Around the Flower Garden, can be made in under two days because Kaye's techniques have eliminated the "slow downs", such as cutting the hexagons, sewing without pins and eliminating ripping.

Alaskan Northern Lights

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Hawaiian Quilt

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As your skills increase, try the divided hexagons, which can given you patterns such as Inner City. Triangles (Tri-hex) can be added to each hexagon, which will give you the pieces used in quilts, such as Eye Spy. Honeycomb designs are made by elongation of the hexagon.

Kaye has also included fussy-cut hexagons using the View & Do Hexagon Shapes. The hexagons are then enlarged with Log Cabin Borders to make tablerunners, quilts, Christmas Tree Skirts, and Kaye's favorite quilt, Alaskan Northern Lights with its Orcas jumping out of the Artic Seas.

Mitered corners on hexagon shapes are easy with Kaye's Mitered Binding Techniques.

Teachers who use this book for classes report great success, even with students who thought they could never sew hexagons.