Mexican Star

Would it surprise you to learn there are quilts at Disneyland? Some cover the impossibly tiny beds below decks on the Columbia. A crazy quilt adorns the queue at Gadget’s Go Coaster. Some are displayed (but not for sale) on the shop walls in Frontierland. When the Tarzan Treehouse belonged to the Swiss Family Robinson, there were quilts there, too. This lovely Mexican Star quilt hangs from a beam high over the exit of Splash Mountain. I did a little digging and unearthed an article about the block from 1930 in the Kansas City Star: “Recently a quilt collector found a beautiful old Mexican Star quilt in the mountains of [New] York State. It was a handsome specimen in reds and blues. How these same lovely patterns are found North, South, East and West testify of the far-flung ties that bound together the scattered settlers of Mexican War days, when this pattern doubtless originated.”