Twelve Quilts of Christmas 2018 – #11

 

 

This collection of quilts for 2018 would be totally incomplete if I did not include this quilt.  If I had to pick one favourite it would be this one.  For a quilt of it’s age and the heavy use it clearly saw, it is still remarkably bright and cheery.

 

I was immediately smitten with it when I saw it up close on one of my trips to England.  In fact I loved it so much I set about making a copy of it, as faithfully as I could.  You can find my version of it here.  

 

Remember when I said that it is hard to assess the size of pieces in a photograph.  Well I did not have the length and width measurements of the original when I made mine, so I went with what I thought they should be, and kind of what I remembered.  Here’s the rub: I think when I had seen it in person, I had been staring so intently at the small little squares that are on the top and bottom of the centre star that I didn’t pay enough attention to the overall size.  That detail just did not stick with me at all.  So, without that memory and without measurements, I ended up making made my version of this quilt about half scale!  Yes I am crazy for small pieces!

 

It was that centre star and the wee squares that run down the middle that left me breathless the first time I saw it and that feeling of delight has not vanished.  Still when I look a the the quilt I almost don’t see the medium scale blocks in the next two rows as you move outward.  My eyes instead choose to rest on the larger blocks of the outer rows … a welcome relief after looking at all those small pieces.  But after a few rounds back and forth between the largest blocks and the smaller squares, I can see the whole of it and it still makes my heart sing.     

 

Here’s the reverse, for those who are wondering what’s on the other side of this two-sided cot quilt. This side is not too shabby at all either!

 

 

Be sure to check in tomorrow … there’s a question you might want to answer!!

 

And UPDATE on yesterdays  quilt.  The wonderful news is that both quilts did end up staying together. The buyer bought both!  Head back to yesterday’s post and read the comments.