Years ago I saved this photo of an antique quilt from an online seller. I was intrigued by the cross shape that appeared because of  the different colouring of the double nine patch blocks. One block has yellow setting squares and four of the nine patch blocks

 and the other has five nine patches and red setting blocks.

I seem to remember that some famous designer released this as a pattern at some stage but the name escapes me now.

So I started my own version but quickly realised that it all looked too harsh and I didn't like the yellow blocks and it was not turning out the way I wanted. It was banished to a drawer until earlier this year when I dragged it out, ripped out the blocks I wssn't happy with and substituted some softer reds and blues and golds.

 I put the three borders on and called it done. It was never going to have that clunky oversized piano key border which seems to totally diminish the centre. 

It's not the original effect but I like it much better now.