I see nothing wrong! It's perfect as is....and the love is too obvious!

It is nice I do understand why you would not wont to give that to your mom that way. But one person said it go but some thing in the middle it would still look good. love to see what you end up doing with it.

MOTHER WILL NOTICE ! And she did. My husband's family plays a lot of Mah Jongg. Once, when we were finished playing for the day, I pushed all the tiles to the center of the table and put the tile racks around them. (The racks are just long sticks that hold the tiles while you play.) To push in the tiles, I placed each rack so that it stuck out on the end, making a square in the middle. John's 12 year old Jewish grandson saw that and had a fit. He was just shaking as he changed it.

Don't tell me that the word "gay" will ever go back to being a "nice" word. When I was little, we were all happy and gay. You can't say that anymore. No matter who you are!

You will be so much happier after you change it. My thought would be to applique a square of a very light color in the center of each block, the same color for all, to hold everything together, but put the square on the bias. That would add interest.

I feel the same about the blocks.
I guess if it were me I would take it apart and make a rail fence out of it. Big job.

I am sitting here looking at the blocks and you know what, it looks like it is a positive and negative type of quilt, I actually kind of like it myself, but sit and look at it on the computer and think about it for a minute before you take the blocks out, it is kind of cool, the white and blue centers look like it is suppose to be that way, just my opinion.

Well I know what a swastika looks like and I do not see a problem with your quilt. But, if you do, there you probably will not be happy until you fix it. Don't think you Mother would notice unless you pointed it out, just like the majority of the comments said 'did not see a problem'.

I agree with ArtsyOne. Just a simple applique in the center would fix it fast and no tearing out stitches.

I don't see the design anywhere except in the third block on the top row and the last block in the bottom row.. I think it's because the colors emphasize it. Because of their location, I don't think it will be much of a trick to take those blocks out and rearrange the colors. I didn't grow up in Germany, but was a little girl in the US during WWII and the design leaped out at me. I think you would have to stretch to see it anywhere else. The colors are lovely and the borders are wonderful. But I don't imagine that you will be happy with until you "fix" those two blocks. Please post a picture showing what you decided. And thanks for being sensitive enough to see the design and know it might have a negative effect on your mom. froggyintexas

Haven't read all posts but my cousin made my mom the exact same pattern in a lap quilt. I have it on the wall now and there are a few blocks that show up the same way. They are all alike but it's just the darker color makes it more noticeable. I wouldn't change it.

j That is what I would do, remember a quilt label doesn't HAVE to be on the back so why not do a special label, possibly heart shape to put on the offending block?