Lending

graphic patterns and design, mainly based on flowers, 1 hearts. lots of templates

In this book Ruth McDowell discusses the fundamentals of symmetry and its application to design in general and for use by quilters. She began to explore the subject and the 17 symmetries of a plane a decade before after investigating Martin Buerger's 1978 book, [Elementary Crystallography].

In the book she gives examples of all 17 symmetries and how they might be applied to quilting. Many of the symmetries are inherent in quilting, but several had not been used before. She has instructions for the 17 different quilts made to illustration each symmetry.

I was tickled with her inspiration here as in high school chemistry I did an extensive project on crystallography, and was quite fascinated with the subject at the time - the scientific underpinnings of beautiful objects. This is the reason I have enjoyed McDowell's books because her books always discuss the design fundamentals behind making beautiful objects, which really enables one to explore these in their own work. ( )

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