The Candlequilter Star block is a paper pieced pattern and it is definitely not the Triple Star pattern mentioned above. If you really look closely at those two patterns you will see the difference. Like so many other patterns there are similarities but the shape of the star in the overall block is the difference. How far the star points extend out and the angles that they make is the major difference. Yes at one point Candlequilter did post a simplified version by fusing the points but that was not the paper piece pattern. She did that only to show that if people thought the paper piece version was to hard they could accomplish the same effect by fusing the points on a block square. The Candlequilter Star block is an actual paper pieced pattern.