 This quilt was a UFO sitting in one my storage bins for who-knows-how-many-years. I think at least one of the fabrics dates back to the 1970s or 80s, but I'm thinking I probably started the project sometime in the 1990s.
I had six or seven of the blocks made and pieces for the other blocks already cut. So it should have been a simple matter of assembling a few more blocks and putting the whole thing together. The challenge was that I hadn't saved the pattern or the instructions, and this is a pretty complicated block to assemble. Fortunately, I had recently clipped an article about how to sew Y seams, which this quilt is full of. Once I got the hang of sewing those, I was on a roll. Several of the already-made blocks had some large triangles of the black floral fabric already sewn onto one side of them. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how I had intended to put the quilt together with those large triangles. Finally, I just removed them and came up with this setting. Luckily, I had enough of the black fabric to fill the corners and along the sides, as well as to make the outer border. I did not, however, have much extra blue or red fabric. So the inner border is a different blue fabric, and the back and binding both use different red fabrics. In the end, this came out better than I expected given that I really am not wild about the color choices or the really dated black floral print fabric. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I started this quilt! As you can see from the label, this quilt will find a good home through my quilt club's quilt donation program, Comfort Quilts. May 2025 Update: I was cleaning out my shelf of quilting books to donate some to Perinton Quilt Guild's garage sale at their quilt show and came across the pattern for this quilt in a book named "Stars & Flowers" by Sara Nephew. The pattern is Peppermint Rose. I started the quilt in a class with Sara Nephew in 1990.
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