Originally Posted by Sarabela

Thank you for all the wonderful advise! I hope I don't regret picking this pattern. The reason I picked it is because it's called "Five Star Tribute". It's the first quilt I'm making for my husband and myself and we have 5 children, 4 living so the 5 stars in each block represent our children. I figured out why things weren't matching up. This is a block that came out pretty good.
And this is the reason the first block wasn't matching up. I was putting the pieces together as the top triangle shows when I should have lined them up like the bottom triangle.