This isn’t specifically a Sweet Valley High craft project. But. If you ever subjected yourself to the historical-fiction weirdness that were the Sweet Valley Sagas, you may remember this book, which was ostensibly the history of the Wakefields, but was really a re-imagining of 100 years or so of American history in which Liz and Jess meddle and manipulate their way through the ages:

(Oh, that cover art. Francine Pascal, why must you always prey upon my love for pastels?)

And if you have the weird head fro details that I somehow have when it comes to bad young adult fiction, you may remember that when 1800’s Elizabeth (Elisabeth?) becomes a hobo because Jess has, naturally, run off to become the hottest bareback rider in any circus in the history of the world, Liz/Lis wraps all of her stuff up in an evening star quilt.

Leave it to the Sweet Valley franchise to make it a really sexy sounding quilt, and not something normal like Log Cabin, or Drunkard’s Path. But then, it would be very un-Elizabeth to sleep under a Drunkard’s Path quilt, unless she’s on her way to the Jungle Prom.

An image search for evening star quilt brings up a number of different things, but most look like this:

Now, this was made around 1929, so it post-dates Liz’s prairie adventures, but isn’t it uncanny that it matches her “sparkling, aquamarine eyes”?

I have too much going on, sewing-wise, to start a new quilt right now, but if one of these is on my bed in six months, we’ll have all learned just how obsessive I can get.

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