[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