Kaffe Fassett Blue Plate Special Quilt

I’ve committed what I considered to be a Kaffe Fassett Faux Pas last month with my Kaffe Fassett Blue Moon Post. I shared my joy about finally finishing this quilt, an “Oh Wow” in which the top was made almost twenty years ago. A week later, this wonderful joy and sense of accomplishment was deflated like air being let out of a balloon and accentuated with the loudest “No” when I discovered the Blue Plate flimsy while rummaging through some other flimsies. I am embarrassed for having forgotten I made this before the Blue Moon quilt and should have realized that the Blue Plate flimsy existed especially since the Blue Moon quilt was referred to as #2 in my quilt log and that I had seven yards left of the backing fabric. I even wondered why I bought so much of the blue stripe backing. 

Any hoot, I claim confusion as these two quilts look an awful lot alike with the same stripe border and color way. The Blue Plate Special was finished four months before Blue Moon. Blue Moon was made from the BPS leftovers for a wedding quilt which was subsequently rejected later. Somehow, in my quilt memory bank, these two flimsies morphed into one flimsy.

I’ve renamed this quilt as Blue Plate Special (BPS) from Blue Moon #1 to avoid more confusion and this was what I had planned to name it originally. BPS measures 64”x82” and Blue Moon measures 48” x 62”. The circles on this quilt only uses one fabric which is the Floral Dance print. If you think I remembered this detail, I didn’t. I found the name after combing through almost twenty Kaffe Fassett books which are located in my studio downstairs and I did enjoyed looking through them and now considering moving some of them upstairs to my bedroom. One of my past luxuries, which I haven’t done much since retirement, was reading quilt books while lounging in a warm bed and Winter is coming, so my timing is impeccable. Wait until I tell the Master Quilt Holder. At first, I wasn’t looking forward to machine quilting BPS due to its size and thinking I had to mark it but realized it would be simple by just doing diagonal wavy lines on the circles and straight line grid quilting along the 8” blocks. I used a Star variegated thread on the top with the same Teal thread on the bottom I used for the Blue Moon quilt. I happened to have another package of the Pellon Bamboo batting which I also used for Blue Moon and BPS is just as soft and snuggly.

Another embarrassing aspect to this Post, is in my Blue Moon Post, I had a photo of it with the Red Moon Quilt and mentioned these two were fraternal twins and that I seem to make two of the same quilts when I like a pattern or fabric. If anything Red Moon is a cousin and these two quilts were separated at birth. I really still can’t believe I forgot I made two quilts with the same fabrics alost twenty years ago. And with that in mind, this is why this is a short Post to admit my Kaffe Fassett Faux Pas. If only all faux pas were just as pretty.