A finish: Criss Cross Stars

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I had a finish a few weeks ago, but no time to write about it.  It's Wednesday, and time to share.

This is a pattern I am calling Criss Cross Stars, though there may be another name for it (Air Castles?).  The 9 inch blocks are made of real feedsack material and vintage cottons from the 1930's and 1940's.  The off white fabric is new.

Wide sashing, no border.  A throw sized quilt, though it is on my bed now.  I had it quilted by a local long arm quilter who always does a wonderful job.  The next photo is a close up showing the vintage fabric but also the quilting:

A thin cotton batting was used.  I am glad to have this bound and labeled.

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New fabric, new blocks, & inspirations

 Hello and welcome to Viridian's blog.  I have new fabric and blocks to share today.

I received a gift certificate to my favorite on line store, Reproduction Fabrics, so I had to spend it!  I recently received the fabric:

Fabrics designed by Michelle Yeo, and that's not all:

Fabric from other designers.  All are in the style of early 1800's fabric.  They may look vaguely familiar because this style of chintz fabrics are still being sold today as "furnishing fabrics" - for upholstery and curtains.

I quickly made new octagon blocks to add to my current project:

My inspiration for this project was an image from Pinterest, showing somewhat smaller blocks, most likely put together by English paper piecing:

When I sew together my blocks the tan will look more like squares, and be closer to this look.

In looking through my quilt history books, I found another chintz quilt to copy:

This quilt from the Poos collection is about 92 inches square and I estimate the triangle blocks are about 4 inches square, maybe 5 inches.  It depends on the width of the borders (not given in the description).  Since I had my fabrics out, I cut pieces and started sewing.

Yes it definitely has that look!  Individual squares will finish at about 5 and 1/4 inches.  A close-up:

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