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Mother Seton Quilting Angels
- Block of the Month - April 2010
It's In the Stars
- Want it all? -
Get it
HERE
Figure 1 (Completed Block)
This month we’re doing a
new star. It’s fun and fast and will be the
largest block we’ve made so far. The finished
size with be 16 1/4”. And it’s entirely made up
with squares, with a little bit of a twist.
Cut 1 square 8 ½” This
is the center square of the star.
Cut 8 4 1/2” background
squares.
Cut 4 4 ½´ squares for
the star rays.
Cut 4 4 ½” corner
squares.
Figure 2 (cut squares)
Take 1 star ray square and
fold it on the diagonal wrong sides together.
(Figure 3)
Place this on one of the
background squares, right side up, lining up
with the side and bottom of the square.
(Figure
4).
Place a second background square on top,
right sides together.
(Figure 5).
You are
sandwiching the triangle between the two
background pieces. Sew the side seams together.
(Figure 6).
Set your seams with the iron, but
don’t press the entire piece. Now open it up
and arrange the triangle so that it opens up and
the point at the bottom lines up vertically with
the top corner to form the triangle piece.
(Figure 7).
Trim off the bottom piece.
(Figure
8).
Now make the other three sides. You should
have ¼” of seam allowance at the top of the star
ray.
Now sew two of the side
pieces on to the 8 ½” square.
(Figure 9)
Sew your corner squares to
the other two side pieces and attach to the top
and bottom of the square.
Press and square up your
block.
You have three choices for
the star ray. If you like you can top stitch
the rays to the background fabric. You can
leave it open and it will get stitched down
during the quilting process. Or you can leave
it open and not stitch it closed during
quilting. The seams are all encased and you
don’t really need to sew it down.
Now make some more.
Do a
whole quilt or send your finished blocks to:
Kathy Thorne
MSP Quilting Angels
PO Box 335
Boyds, MD 20841
Your blocks will go into
quilts for our wounded soldiers or for the
Children with cancer. Thanks for all you do.
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