I want to make a star quilt block sampler quilt. :) Which star blocks are your favorites? Which would you include?

Inquiring minds want to know!

*Edited to add, I'm thinking of each block being 12" finished, but I could do a medallion in the center and then blocks around. :)

Friendship star, Ohio star, floating star, double star (depending on block size)

It would be more the problem of deciding which ones I would not include as there'd be too many to choose from!!! :)

Traditional, Paper Pieced, Free Hand (I'm sure there's a proper name for that!) ... and anything in between.

However, it'd depend on what sort of a look I'd want, that I might keep to one type or the other. The fabric would speak to me!

Lemoyne star

Carpenter Star. I just put one in a sampler type quilt and it worked well. Ohio Star. My Friendship Star is done with 4 patches instead of solids in the center and corners. I like it, except I had to use strange colors (high school colors).

I am afraid I am not much help, I love them all.

I love all star blocks, but my favorites are Friendship, Ohio, Hunter and some of the spinning star blocks.

which spinning stars? Do you have links?

I picked 8 from here to make pillow covers. I picked a few that weren't too hard and worked my way up to difficult LOL

I will confess that pick #8 was abandoned in favor of a string star free-pieced!

http://www.quilterscache.com/BlocksbySizeC.html

there's a Carol Doak book of 50 stars---one for each of the 50 states- i would love to make a quilt with all of them!...one of these day's i might-
i would browse that book and add as many of them as i was (drawn to) and would fit.

ohh good idea! I have that book. I've made a lot of them already, so I'd have to make more. :) DH has already picked the colors for our state quilt (I'm embroidering the dates we've been in each state)

Me too.

I have always loved the Prairie Star. (See below). It works great with paper piecing. You can also make a quilt in a "star set" where each regular block is set in the center of a star (like in the center of an Ohio Star)...or you could mix it up. If you want templates for the Prairie Star, I made some in EQ7. Send me a PM.

I would center it with a feathered star or Carpenter's star. I agree about meadering thru quilterscache.com for ideas. I have made a couple of star sampler quilts and enjoyed the experience. Martha Washington, Dolly Madison and 54'40" or Fight are ones I like particularly.

Ohh what a pretty star Johanna!

QM - I'm a bit over the Carpenters Star: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-162634-1.htm This baby is *huge* and I'm working on the binding now. :D

That star is gorgeous Johanna!

Same here. The Salem guild's raffle quilt for 2011 is made from this book. http://midvalleyquiltguild.com/page.php?page_id=1339

The Carpenter's Star does not need to be so large. The squares could be made whatever size you wanted, right down to a mini at 1" finished.

There is a totally awesome website called Dream Castle Quilts that did a 2010 BOW of paper pieced stars. Check them out (2 pages of stars). They all finish at 12".
http://www.dreamcastlequilts.com/?page_id=705
http://www.dreamcastlequilts.com/?page_id=1877

ohh thanks! :)

Great site!! I bookmarked for sure! Thank you, ghostrider.

Nancy
quilter711

There's a book called Stars By Magic that I love. It has a lot of different stars and an unusual easy way to do them.

I recently made a star sampler, a picture is attached, my favorites were Carpenters Square, Twisting Star, and Ribbon Star...well I kinda like them all, but those were my favorites...

Stars by Magic books is great.

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I made a star sampler quilt and just went through my 501 Blocks book and picked out blocks I liked...the hard part was narrowing it down to the number I needed!

Yes, the Lemoyne Star. It is my all time favorite.
Barbara

I have fallen in love with the LeMoyne Star. I use Deb Tucker's Rapid Fire LeMoyne star ruler and it is so easy and they turn out perfect. With the one ruler, you can make starts from 3" to 12".

I just finished making the Snow Days quilt and I liked the Martha Washington star, made it in 3 sizes, 6,9 and 12 inches.

I love ALL stars!!!

There are so many to choose from, but I would use the friendship star, Ohio star, my favorite - the 8 pointed star, Hope of Hartford star, and the list goes on. I love star blocks and would have to say the eight pointed star is one of my favorites, as you can make so many variations - putting a 9-patch or 4-patch in the center square, square in a square, and the lsit goes on. The possibilities are endless, in fact I would have trouble decided which ones would not go into the quitl.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-118779-1.htm
This is a lovely star!!!!
I really like your idea about a star sampler!

I made my husband a sampler for our 10th wedding anniversary last year. All the blocks are 12" and all of them are from www.quilterscache.com

I just searched the site for 12" finished blocks.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-36285-1.htm

KP what a beautiful red/white/blue quilt! I wish I could learn to do paper piecing like the other blocks shown. I just cant get the hang of it. My favorite block is Double Aster. It looks complicated but its really not! My suggestion is to try different ones on scrap material until you find the ones you are comfortable making but most of all have FUN!!

The Mexican Star. It is a little challenging but beautiful. K

Consider Carol Doaks book Mariner compass stars .I just posted it a few weeks ago.

This is wonderful! Thanks so much.

I really like your idea of making a sampler quilt with different star patterns. That will go on my to do list.

There's also a really cool split LeMoyne Star that's really striking if you do it in bold, contrasting colors. It's what's in the middle of my sampler!

Grammy dwynn,
I just wanted to say I love your pillow, It is beautiful.
GOD bless.