Monterrey Medallion, Revisited

 

I set these blocks aside at the end of September last year. I didn’t want them to become a white elephant – too large for a wall hanging, too square for a bedspread. I used up all the white(ish) tone-on-tone pin dot background that I needed to make it a useful size, and it was so far out of print I had no hope of finding a replacement. For several weeks I consoled myself with small Halloween and Christmas quilts. I found some fabric I thought would work, called “cognac dots.” I didn’t know until the package arrived that “cognac” meant “dirty yellow.” Then I discovered some white tone-on-tone polka-dots from the same designer. You can’t tell from the photo, but half these star blocks and one of the chain blocks has a slightly whiter background than the rest. I can’t even tell, unless it’s in full sun. And it’s a bad idea to put any quilt in full sun.