Block 5:  A Star is Born Block

 

(Throw Version, 24.5” block)

Supplies:

If using the HST ruler, cut 8 6.5” background triangles and 8 6.5” star point fabric triangles.  

If making your own HSTs, cut 4 7.5” squares out of background fabrics and 4 7.5” squares out of the star point fabric.

Cut 4 6.5” squares of background fabric.

Cut a 12.5” center.  (Note: If you had leftover bits from previous blocks, you can improv piece your own center and then trim if down to a 12.5” square.  Alternately, you can make is 4 square patch center by sewing together 4 6.5” squares or substitute in a 12.5” block of your choosing.)

 

Assembly:

You need to make 8 star points.  Using either the 2 at a time HST methods (marking the diagonal and sewing ¼” seam on either side of the line, then cutting, pressing, and trimming down to 6.5” squares or by sewing a background triangle to a star point triangle, assemble the 8 HST blocks.  

Sew two pairs of HST star points together and attach to each side of the center.

Sew the remaining blocks into 4 square rows (background square, star point, star point, background square.)

Attach top and bottom rows to the center section.  Press.

 

(Mini Version)

Supplies:

If using HST ruler, cut 8 background 3.5” triangles and 8 3.5” star point fabric triangles.

If making your own HSTs, cut 4 4.5” squares out of background fabrics and 4 4.5” squares out of star point fabric.

Cut 4 3.5” squares of background fabric.

Cut a 6.5” center.  (NOTE: you can use this as an opportunity to improv piece your own center out a favorite scraps and then trim down to a 6.5” square.  Alternately, you can make it a 4 square patch center by sewing together 4 3.5” squares.)

 

Assembly:

You need to make 8 star points.  Using either the 2 at a time HST methods (marking the diagonal and sewing ¼” seam on either side of line, then cutting, pressing, and trimming down to 3.5” squares) or by sewing a background triangle to a star triangle, assemble the 8 HST blocks.

Sew two pairs of HST star points together and attach to each side of the center.

Sew the remaining blocks into 4 square rows (background square, star point, star point, background square).

Attach top and bottom rows to the center section.  Press.