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If you take a look at my quilt board on Pinterest there are quite few star quilts. So many that for a while there I had to stop myself from pinning them because it was getting out of hand. Now the board has more diversity, but there are still tons of star quilts because someday I'd like to make one of my own!
So with that in mind, I thought now would be a good time to make a few star blocks to see if I enjoy the process and can see myself sticking with it to finish an entire quilt.
First I had to figure out how to make a star block. There are a number of different star blocks, but I didn't want to get too fancy about it so I choose the Sawtooth Star.
Searching for instructions for this classic block turned up lots of free tutorials, but I really just wanted the instructions neatly packaged into a document for storing on my computer. So off to etsy I went! And right here I found just the right pattern.
If you want to make a Sawtooth Star block this is a very good pattern. The instructions are straightforward and neatly laid out so they are easy to read.
The pattern comes with measurements for pieces to make this block in three sizes: 3", 4", 6", and 9".
The blocks shown here are all 9" blocks. Really they are 9.5" because the sizes are the finished block sizes. There's extra 1/4" all the way around to accommodate them being joined together.
One of the reasons I selected this pattern is the 9" block is perfect for making a queen size quilt. It's not too big and not too small and a standard size for a queen quilt is 90" x 108". So it would be 10 blocks wide x 12 blocks high. Only 120 of them! Haha...that's quite a lot of quilt blocks.
I did mess up two of them (they don't have quite enough allowance) so there will some unpicking to do if they end up in a quilt. "Unpicking" is a funny word and perhaps it's not technically a word at all, but it's something we stitchers need to do from time to time.
Fortunately, I've got just the unpicking tool needed in this seam ripper. This Clover seam ripper is pretty new to me and it's really quite nice. The ergo handle makes it comfy to hold and use.
There are a few more blocks that aren't shown here, so maybe I'm like 10% of the way to the 120 blocks needed? That makes it sound doable, but we'll see if it actually happens!
