Thread: turn one block into the top for an entire quilt?

I don't know if you have EQ, but this would be easily accomplished in EQ. Does this block have a name by any chance?

Originally Posted by rhapsdy

Anyone know of a tutorial or does anyone have any personal experience on what might be the best way to take one small blocks design and turn it into an entire quilt top? I just want a huge star quilt top, not lots of little stars. Here is the star I'm drooling over:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftzilla/6785842274/

I thought I could possibly just blow up the paper piecing pattern on a copy machine, but after researching lots of people said that won't work as the copy machines apparently sometimes get it off, and the whole pattern won't work.

Simple. The easiest & fastest would be to enlarge just a quarter section. You don't have to be very precise about the single block size as you can finish out the quilt with assorted borders. In this case, I think I'd do a wide outside border of some print, a medium inside border of another co-ordinating print, a thin white border and on the inside a thin print border. (mimicing the star & shadow)

That is such a happy, cheerful star, I can see why you want to make it into a quilt using just the pattern for the center. And thanks for the link to the pattern.

Originally Posted by chislett

Carpenters Star is a great pattern to make a large quilt.

That it is, but this pattern is just fabulous. And it's not going to be too hard to do.

Here's a block I drew in EQ. If you tell me what size you want the center to be I can PM you with rotary cutting info. It's not exactly the same; I didn't include any border around the star as I thought you'd want to do your own.

Google Giant Vintage Star quilt and youmwill find a giant star tut that uses fat quarters. One of my quilters made it in 45 minutes and took two hours to quilt it! It come out about 72" square but you can easily add borders to enlarge it

The star you want to enlarge is gorgeous. I am no help on enlarging. I agree borders would get it to the size you want. Good luck, lots of help here.

There is a book that might help you with this. It is called Fractured Stars. A lap size quilt is shown with four large stars but the book might help you enlarge your pattern. Here it is on Amazon. Just noticed there is one 48x48 size that is one big star.

http://www.amazon.com/Fractured-Star...s+quilt+design