Place the two triangles on top of one another for faster cutting. To begin, cut your square in half diagonally: To make the blocks, we’ll be cutting triangles, diamonds and trapezoids from each 10″ square. Four blocks will give you a full star in the center of the blocks. If you want to increase or decrease the size of the quilt, know that one print and one background square will make two blocks. Also, because I used a swiss dot print for my background, the softer prints I included still looked different from the background fabric. I liked using a few of them, but there were other prints that were even softer which I set aside and didn’t use in this project. That said, you can see in the photo above that I did use some low volume prints from the collection in my quilt top. For example, if you’re using a solid white background and the layer cake has a solid white print in it, or a white print with a very light pattern on it, you may want to skip it. I recommend eliminating those prints that most closely match your background fabric so they don’t get lost in the quilt and make it more difficult to see the pattern. ![]() ![]() Note: If you’re using a layer cake, you should have 40 prints to choose from. I used a black on white swiss dot print for my background) For the quilt I made, which is 64 inches square, I used:ģ2 – 10 inch squares of various fabric prints (which is most of a layer cake, although I cut my own squares from Bonnie Christine’s Reminisce collection for Art Gallery Fabrics)ģ2 – 10 inch squares of background fabric (2.5 yards of fabric. I realized when I was finished with it that I had stumbled on a great pattern for a layer cake, so I thought I’d share a quick tutorial.Įach 8 pointed star in a hunter’s star quilt is made up of four smaller blocks. Early this week I shared photos of my scrappy version of a Hunter’s Star quilt.
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