White with navy blue and white calico triangles form the quilt top over a thin cotton batting. The triangle arrangement is sometimes called broken dish. Mrs. Nellie Worthington or a member of her family pieced the bold broken dish pattern in diagonal lines. Lucy used a dark navy calico print to replace the original back. She hand bound the edges. She tried a new quilting pattern. It tessellates or covers the same plane with congruent copies of the same region with no holes or overlap across the quilt as side-by-side white thread lines stitched on the diagonal form intersecting 1” squares to emphasize the movement of the broken dish pattern.

Techniques: Machine pieced, hand quilted
Culture: American
Geographic Location: North and Central America, United States
Credit Line: Gift of Rosemary Mucklow, The Lucy Hilty Collection