Carpenter Star Quilt Pattern Tutorial

For this project jenny chose an abby rose layer cake by robin pickens for moda fabrics.

Carpenter star quilt pattern tutorial.

Quilt backing quilt backing fabric 60 fabric 90 fabric 108 fabric 120 fabric batik fabric hand dyed batik fabrics in a variety of colors styles fabric panels hundreds of fabric panels for quilting holiday traditional baby more. It was a lot of work. This week jenny is whipping up an easy carpenter s star using big half square triangles. Pair two of the marked background squares with two hot dark fabric squares right sides together and all edges matched.

Place your yellow 4 5 square on top of your purple 4 5 square right sides together. Cut your square on each diagonal as shown in the image below. 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. 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.

This will give you 4 hsts per one set. Shop jenny s easy carpenter s star quilt supplies here. Sew around your square using 1 4. Here comes the most tedious part.

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.