carpenter star pattern
09-20-2014, 08:19 PM
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Has anyone seen a pattern for this quilt that is not cut up into all those 1/2 square triangles? I have a pattern got at a garage sale and looks like they are mostly squares with different colors on either side, it just seems much easier to do it with the 2 squares and then cut in half. Would love to hear your opinion on this.
BTW, one carpenter's wheel block consists of 8 squares across and 8 rows up and down----------64. Most of those squares are HST
09-21-2014, 01:34 PM
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I just made one of these and it's ready to quilt. Very easy to make, my baby size called for 16 squares of various oranges, 16 squares of various greens and then white background squares. Sew 8 orange and green together, cut apart for HST, do the same with rest of green and orange with white as the other side. The tricky part for me was getting the layout right. But it's an easy pattern, took me two evenings to complete. If you're making this with 5 inch blocks of the color and 4 1/2 inch blocks of half the white you'll want to take the time to square up all your HST's to 4 1/2 inches. It goes together great after that.
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