Carpenter's Star for a friend
04-16-2012, 09:21 AM
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The father in law of a friend of mine recently had a stroke. I decided to make him a lap quilt. Unfortunately, I had a lot of delays in the process, but it is finally done and ready for delivery. The older gentleman is still a hard working man and loving to his kids, grandkids and great grand kids. He has done a lot of masonry around our town, but I decided not to do the Mason's star.
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04-16-2012, 10:43 AM
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Thank you all.
Several people on this thread and others have asked questions on enlarging patterns. With a pattern that is based on HSTs, like this one, the math is relatively simple. I wanted a 40" wide quilt. There are 10 subunits going across the quilt, so each finished HST should be 4". I cut squares of 5" for every HST (giving myself 1/8" for trimming).
I have done the same thing with a sawtooth star, but I worked my math in the other direction. My fabric was 40" wide (excluding the selvedges), so I cut 10" squares for my subunits, resulting in 9" HST's. By adding a 2 1/2" (cut at 3") border, I have a 41" wide quilt, so I used a 41" backing, with no piecing. Since I am using 45x54" batting, I added an inner border on the top and bottom, making the finished shape I wanted.
The idea is to break your about to be supersized block down into equal subunits and work from there.
Several people on this thread and others have asked questions on enlarging patterns. With a pattern that is based on HSTs, like this one, the math is relatively simple. I wanted a 40" wide quilt. There are 10 subunits going across the quilt, so each finished HST should be 4". I cut squares of 5" for every HST (giving myself 1/8" for trimming).
I have done the same thing with a sawtooth star, but I worked my math in the other direction. My fabric was 40" wide (excluding the selvedges), so I cut 10" squares for my subunits, resulting in 9" HST's. By adding a 2 1/2" (cut at 3") border, I have a 41" wide quilt, so I used a 41" backing, with no piecing. Since I am using 45x54" batting, I added an inner border on the top and bottom, making the finished shape I wanted.
The idea is to break your about to be supersized block down into equal subunits and work from there.
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