Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt Pattern

A pieced quilt pattern built entirely from small hexagons, hand-pieced using the English paper piecing technique, typically arranged with a colored center hexagon ringed by petal hexagons and a path of neutral hexagons between flower units. The hexagon template itself dates to eighteenth century England, with the earliest known published pattern appearing in an 1835 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, but the block's popularity, and its familiar name, are most associated with American quilters of the 1920s and 1930s, who found the small scrap-friendly pieces well suited to Depression-era budgets.