The lady who made this quilt did it all by hand, and the majority of the piecing kept her sane while she was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
The information sheet hanging next to the quilt says that there are almost 13,000 (yes, that's thousand!) pieces in this quilt!
Each one of those hexagons is 3/8" across. That's, like, the size of my pinkie nail! The quilter used the English paper-piecing method, which is very accurate, but there's huge amount of preparation.
Again, this was done by HAND!!! Yikes!
It's a lovely, lovely quilt - and what a great way to bring some beauty out of pain and illness.
