Vintage Quilt Inspiration

I like to revisit some older quilts and the one I want to share (again) is Seeing Red from my 2013 book Paper Piecing Perfect Points. It was inspired by this vintage quilt called Midnight Sun which appeared in an issue of Quilt Magazine about 25 years ago.

Vintage Midnight Sun quilt

Yes, that was pieced using templates and definitely all by hand! Not me, of course. I drafted the pattern for foundation paper piecing:

Seeing Red: 38" x 38" with 15" blocks

I taught it as a class and here are some of my teaching samples:

Foundation pieced units

And the full block center:

Midnight Sun center block

Let's see it from the back. Look at those pointy points!

Back of block

I made several blocks, put them together and then donated the finished quilt to my local guild for our charity endeavors.

Midnight Sun 15" block

Here is the 9 block quilt finished in 2022:

Brown and Pink Midnight Sun: 45" x 45"

Yes, I get a lot of inspiration from vintage quilts, but I am not inspired to make them the same way. But, they still look the same and that's all I care about.