I recently repaired a quilt like this; in fact, the colors could match each other like twins. This quilt was made in the mountains of East Tn in the late 40's or early 50's. The star points were also pieced in this quilt.

WOW! That quilt is just lovely. It is a treasure!!!

I love the quilt that started this thread. Thank you to ghostrider for the Quilt Index link, and 117becca I love your quilt. I hope to make a variation called Texas Star one day.

Love it!!But then, I love almost all red/white quilts!

I was just viewing a pattern exactly like this one in Easy Four Patch Quilting 1999 Published by House of White Birches - Edited by Sandra L. Hatch, Jeanne Stauffer and in this book it is called a SnowBall Quilt. To me it's nothing like a Snowball and isn't even created like the Snowball I know. But the picture is exactly the same as your quilt...

Stunning quilt! I wonder how long it took to piece it? :-)

I have seen it called Seven Sisters.

Whatever it is, it is lovely. I know your friend is going to be thrilled. Please be sure to post a pic when it is finished!

Actually it looks like a tumbling blocks pattern that has been strategically done to look like stars.

I hand piece them and just call them 6 pointed stars.

I love that quilt!! Barbara Backman says that the KC Star printed it as a Little Girl's Star and in 4/65, Women's Day called it Pennsyvania Hex. I am guessing that this is the Woman's Day version because she says, "set it concentric rings". I have seen it with a cluster of 7 of these stars set on a plain background. That way it is called 7 stars, (later called 7 sisters) and was published by the Ladies Art Co. in 1898. Whatever you call it, it's a great pattern. Thanks for sharing it. I loved it when I first saw it but forgot about it because it was way beyond my skills then. What a great way to use scraps.

I found several names for that pattern in the book5,500 Quilt Block Designs by Maggie Malone. they are Eisenhower Star. Stair Step Quilt, Little Girls Star(KCS), Pennsylvania Hex (WD) Star Bouquet (HAS) and Morning Star. Hope this helps!

Finished!....except for attaching the label. I opted to call it "Rolling Star", but I sincerely appreciate all the input. Someone said it was a variation on "tumbling blocks, which it is, but not obviously so. I'm making a mini-scrapbook of the progression to completion, and will list all the "possible" names in it too. This was a real learning experience for me.....this has so many bias-cut pieces that it stretched like a rubber band!, which resulted in waves of fabric in the top and bottom borders....not fun for LA quilting. But perseverence has prevailed. Thanks again for everyone's help. I love this Board.

Spectacular finish! I love your scrapbook idea! What a treasure!

Gorgeous quilt! Thanks for sharing

This quilt design came from a group of designs using what is called "Hexagons gone Wild". I can't remember the name, but it is made with these templates. The templates also make tumbling blocks, I only know because I took the class and have the templates. The star pattern is named something like Freedom Star.

I just looked it up, http://csjquilts.com/products.html
It's is the rainbow star pattern on this site.

http://csjquilts.com/products/product1.jpg

It's a beautiful quilt!

Beautiful!

You did a great job! I just picked one of these up at the St. Vincent De Paul for $4. I am going to quilt it at some point. First I have to remove the ugly '90's fabric someone bordered it with. Very bad!

[QUOTE=ghostrider;4732331]Maggie Malone’s book (p 350) has the block (a hexagon block) listed as Little Girls’ Star, Pennsylvania Hex, Star Bouquet Quilt, and Morning Star.
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A search of the MSU Quilt Index using ‘hexagon star’ as the search criteria resulted in 249 quilts of several names.
http://www.quiltindex.org/search_results.php?sortby=Pattern(A-Z)&keywords=hexagon+star
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One of the closest to the one pictured above is this one, titled Rolling Star using the Morning Star quilt pattern. It, too, has every other star point as a solid and a white hexagon.
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1B-3A-2FF
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The Quilt Index is a great resource for info on vintage quilts…well worth bookmarking if you’re interested in that sort of stuff. [/QUOTE


The quilt top is great--thanks for asking the question and thanks to ghostrider for her references. The quilt index is new to me. wow!

You did a beautiful job on it, Linda. The borders are a perfect fit design-wise and it looks just right! I think you chose the perfect name...it looks so much like the 1936 'Rolling Star' one I linked to earlier. Well Done all around!

I have this same quilt (feed sacks) that my grandmorther made.....she called it a "Morning Star"! Beautiful!

How does a design get so many different names? Can each quilter just give it a name if she wants to? Depending on the color combinations this one really does trick the eye. Thanks for posting and I enjoyed the discussion.

Antique Six-Pointed Star Quilthttp://www.quiltingboard.com/images/quilt11.jpgWell, technically, it is a Six Pointed Star - but so much easier to sew together when you make Nine Patch Tumbling Blocks first! Construction is discussed on page 16 of Six is for Hexagons, Volume 6 in the Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks.

Could anyone identify this vintage quilt pattern?

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/30-VINTAGE-QU...Y+g~~60_12.JPG