Off my design wall – a finished quilt – 2013.07.23

I finished this quilt, and it’s ready to send to the La Conner Quilt Museum.

My original intention was to piece this quilt as hexagons – blogged here.  That didn’t work so well, so I fused the hexagons instead – blogged here.

While searching for the origin of this quilt block, I found The Quilt Index website, where I discovered this quilt pattern from 1897(!).  The pattern title is ‘Ecclesiastical’.  Looking at this pattern, I can see that it could be pieced as vertical rows of triangles, each consisting of 3 half-hexagons – although there’s still a Y-seam in each triangle.  I think I’ll try making this pattern again, but with larger pieces.  I’m not sure if I’ll piece it as triangle or as hexagons – maybe I’ll try both!