Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
maybe make the stars with two fabrics and stick with the background of the stars being white neutrals (maybe two or three different tone-on tone whites) and keep the scrappy borders and sashings-should tone it down alot-I don't like their version much either-I like your choice of fabrics, but the stars get lost with all those prints. I know some will love it that way.
I don't like theirs either, but I do like their pattern. Scrappy quilts are cute, but this is too busy. A neutral background will showcase your pretty prints. If you have quite a bit of fabric, you could sew two or three stars together and make a table runner for the Fourth of July.