what are your favorite star blocks?
 

I am starting to design my next quilt. I am thinking about a star sampler quilt. I know their are patterns out there, but I am wanting to improve my drafting skills, so I am starting this one with a blank piece of paper! I decided on a star sampler, set on point. it will have 18 blocks, so I need 18 different stars. Any ideas? what are your favorite star patterns? I am looking for both simple and complex blocks.
Here is what I have so far...
sawtooth
ohio
lemoyne
friendship

What are your must do stars??

Annie's Choice, of course!

Here are some (with pix) from my idea folder: 9-Patch Star & Dolly Madison Star

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And here's one from Quiltville... I think this is called "Slanted Star" tho Bonnie calls it "Smokey Mountain Stars". I love it, whatever the name of it is!!![ATTACH=CONFIG]354891[/ATTACH]

great ideas! I'd seen the annie's choice before, but didn't know what it was called. That block looks great in two-tone. I am loving the dolly madison! the slanted star in really fun, but I'm not sure how it would look on point.

Here's some more:
http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/qu...ltpatterns.htm

This is my favorite...so far. Tangled Stars.

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Dream Castle Quilts has great free star block patterns. She did a star BOW for 2010 so there's two pages of them.
http://www.dreamcastlequilts.com/?tag=free-pattern

I like Judy Martins star quilts. She mixes the sizes of her stars. Cookies 'n' Quilts has a great quilt called
I have a dream, she also has a great one called Star Happy Quilts. These are scrappy quilts and great to use fabrics from your stash. I like her quilts because of the added interest, much better than all the stars being the same size.

I did a star sampler once...it turned out to be one of my favorite quilts:
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Really like your choice of colors used, willfreg.

Go to Quilter's Cache. There are lots of different star patterns there in various sizes. You should be able to pick out some nice ones there and they are free.

wonderful quilt!!! love the reds

There are so many star patterns....I have always wanted to do a star sampler...love the star quilt photo!

This is my favourite, but it does have partial seaming and is 10" http://www.quilterscache.com/H/HopeofHartfordBlock.html

Star with flying swallows in the center. Its not flying geese or half square tri.

Great site.....thanks for sharing!

Here's a link that has quite a few star patterns & ideas ---> http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/Qu...ltPatterns.htm

Here's another link I found for what they call "Pinwheel Star" --->http://quiltssc.tripod.com/PinwheelStar.htm

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And another one called "Ohio Star with Pinwheel Center" ---> http://quiltssc.tripod.com/OSPinwheelCtr.htm

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I'm not sure if this qualifies as "must do' but I found a block called Duck Tracks on Quilter's Cache. It's pretty simple, but it was fun to make. (I used it in a baby quilt I made for a friend a few years ago.)

I just made a triple star block from blocks galore
Gale

My favorite is Sarah's Choice. It's really pretty and it's easy which suits me to a "T"