The Highest Form of Flattery

In one of my swaps, a nonswindling, nonsociopath sent me this absolutely gorgeous block:


I don’t know if there is a commercial pattern but I liked it so much that I attempted to draft something similar to use in my red white and blue project. Here is what I came up with:


My thought was that it would have red hearts in the center and the corners. The star burst rays would be blue, and the background would be the white (with red stars). I thought having red up against the blue star burst rays would make it pop.

So far, so good…:


Now, I began constructing the sides. Well crud.






You can see that I messed up. See which one looks different? Sadly, the DIFFERENT one is the one I want!

It should have had white along the outside – see where the arrows are pointing?


Since I already trimmed it, it is too small to just make a design adjustment. I will need to redo all four center mini blocks.

Oh well. I am sure I’ll have fun working on it. I’ll let you know how it turns out.