What is a tessellation and HOW does it apply to a Quilt Design?
Creating tessellations patterning with your quilt software is much less complex than you might think. I think the word “tessellation” scares us because we think of the complex imagery of MC Escher or that forbidden word, yikes, MATH! But the bottom line is we are using these shapes everyday in our quilting designs and do not always realize we are using math and tessellation. Some of the math shapes are familiar and others like rhombus or hyperbolic we can add to our vocabulary. Remember how many of us thought algebra and geometry would never apply to us, well we were wrong, quilting is about geometry and math. Think how impressed your friends will be the next time you tell them that the Block was designed using rhombase and hyperbolic patterns ;->. Now step back a minute, catch your breathe and look at the definition for tessellation and it becomes clear that most repeated designs in our quilts can be classified as a tessellation. For a clear explanation and examples to show you what I
