Carpenter Star Quilt Pattern Tutorial

Place your yellow 4 5 square on top of your purple 4 5 square right sides together.

Carpenter star quilt pattern tutorial.

Sew around your square using 1 4. Cut your square on each diagonal as shown in the image below. About this tutorial quilt size. Here comes the most tedious part.

Pair two of the marked background squares with two hot dark fabric squares right sides together and all edges matched. 83 x 83 jenny doan demonstrates how to make an easy version of the classic carpenter star quilt block using 10 inch squares of precut fabric layer cakes. This week jenny is whipping up an easy carpenter s star using big half square triangles. Thank goodness for modern innovations.

For this project jenny chose an abby rose layer cake by robin pickens for moda fabrics. Pair the remaining two marked. Assembly directions draw a diagonal line from one corner to the opposite corner on the reverse side of each 2 7 8 background square and two. This will give you 4 hsts per one set.

It was a lot of work. In the olden days laundry was scrubbed on washboards hand mixed bread was baked in finicky wood burning stoves and the carpenter s star was stitched with labor intensive y seams.