Crib Quilt top from my collection.
Similar pattern From Stella Rubin's shop (#1)
I love these charm quilts from the 1870s and '80s with the grayed lilac prints. Looking back, we can see a major fad for using fashionable dress prints in a tessellated one patch top.
I noticed a minor style trend when I was looking at a few.
Collection New England Quilt Museum (#2)
In the center of the starry field of prints is a hexagon
of solid colors.
#2
A third quilt from the Nickols Collection
at the Mingei Museum
#3 center
Ann Quilts posted this photo of one she was repairing (#4).
At first I thought they were all the same quilt but they are four quilts in the same style,
down to the solid fabrics in a central block.
A hexagon charm quilt with the central ring of solids.
This one is in the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.
#1997.007.0907...
date-inscribed 1887,
made by Mary Ann Grosh Stoner in Ohio.
(Plain colored fabrics were not too colorfast in 1887---I wonder
if that white piece in the ring was once green.)
From the Pat Nickols collection at the Mingei Museum
Another 60 degree diamond with a central focus of solid colors.
Apparently your authentic period charm
quilt needs a few solids in the center.