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It’s always fun to sew a star quilt with one big motif like the one here that features a bunch of triangles in four different colors arranged together to create the depiction of a big dark blue Froebel star with a red diamond in its center, a white background, and matching color triangles in its corners. This pattern helps you make a beautiful baby quilt with a thin dark frame around the edges, a 4 x 4 grid of blocks separated by thin, slightly lighter straps between them, and a main motif on each block in the form of a square made of four smaller contrasting squares with contrasting triangles on their outer edges that together create the famous Froebel star.īy Weddingdressblue Giant star baby quilt

Take out those fabrics that have all kinds of designs over them and get ready to make a quilt with a single color background and a bunch of stars in the shapes of the star of David, each one in a different color, arranged in a 4 x 5 grid with some stars in the top and bottom row sliced in half. Those of you who are tired of quilts with grids will most likely love this pattern that has a white background with a colorful frame around the outer edges and a big, colorful star with a smaller sawtooth star on a white background in its center, all made from rhombus patches in various colors joined together. This quilt might bring back childhood memories – your grandma’s comfy bed you slept in when visiting her, featuring a medium-width frame from a colorful fabric around the edges, and a 5 x 6 grid of sawtooth star blocks that have a white background with a single color star on top and matching color triangles in the corners around it.īy Quiltingintherain Easy Carpenter Star Quilt Tilted Froebel stars known as sawtooth stars are what this pattern is all about, as it features them in various colors, arranged in a 5 x 5 grid with every second star in the last and first row cut in half, and each star points touching the points of the neighboring stars, creating diamond and pentagon shapes from the quilt background.

#3 color quilt blocks how to

The star quilt pattern we have here won’t help you make a certain quilt but instead show you how to make a quilting block with a sawtooth star that has a contrasting square inside it or is entirely in one color, with which you will be able to create numerous different quilts, making this pattern a useful tool for almost all of your custom quilting projects.

Use this pattern to create a quilt that has a beautiful large octagram star that is made of many diagonally set rhombus patches in different colors, with contrasting, smaller rhombus patches in the center of the star that form a smaller star of the same kind as the big one.īy Materialgirlquilts Reverse Sawtooth Star Quilt Pattern

#3 color quilt blocks free

1.10 Free cathedral stars quilt pattern.

1.2 Reverse Sawtooth Star Quilt Pattern.

Here is the final three (3) color sawtooth star quilt block.

Sew the three (3) rows together and press.

Check out our article on pressing seams in quilting.

Press and lay out your blocks in three rows.

Cut along the line making the no-waste flying geese blocks for the side units.

Again, sew on both sides of the marked line.

Next, layer a marked squares on top of the corner as shown in the picture, right sides together.

Cut along the line making two sections.

Turn and sew 1/4" on the other side of the marked line.

Layer two of the squares on the larger square (fabric from third column on the chart above) on opposite corners, right sides together.

NOTE: Always test your marking pen/pencil before marking your fabric. I used a Frixion pen that is removeable with pressing. With the squares cut for the flying geese stars (fourth column on each of the charts above), draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of your fabric.

Let's start by making the flying geese blocks.

I'm making a 12"-inch, three (3) color Sawtooth Star quilt block, so the corner squares are the same color as the side background used in the no-waste flying geese blocks.

Start by cutting your fabrics as outlined in the fabric calculator above.