ESSENTIAL GUIDE Exploring Octagons

The octagon shape is a good one to welcome into our quilting world. It not only brings interest but an attractive, almost circular quality to our work “The octagon shape works well on its own and in combination with other shapes, and this month we learn how to draw and use this polygon.” – Lin Clements THE OCTAGON SHAPE The word “octagon” is derived from a Greek word meaning eight angles. An octagon is a geometric shape, specifically a polygon, with eight equal angles and eight equal sides (see Fig 1). The sum of the interior angles is 1080° and the sum of the exterior angles is 360°. In a regular octagon, the interior angle at each vertex is 135°. We use the octagon quite often in patchwork, although not…

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