Browsing through a book of blocks the other day we came across a couple that we have made before (but don’t seem to have pictures of!) and realised that they are related to another block we do have a picture of . . . and then one thing led to another and with the aid of Electric Quilt we had some more related blocks that we may, or may not, make. You can download a PDF of the templates to make all these blocks at 12 inches, foundation piecing is a possibility but they didn’t fit onto A4 paper so they haven’t been included, but you do get a picture of each block to colour in.
So what are these blocks? First of all is Wheel of Destiny and then the star points were made slimmer and the colour kept the same
At which point it began to resemble Starry Path
And then with a bit of tweaking of the outer triangles Starry Path became Interwoven Star.
But you could join the centres of those two stars so they form a quarter-square triangle unit in the centre and make these two blocks – which we’ve called Spinning Stars 1 and 2.
But what happens if we go back to Starry Path and change the outer triangles again and make them a different shape?
And then if we add a tiny triangle to those new ones it almost looks as if the points have folded over (with a bit of clever colouring).
Join us next month for some more stellar blocks.
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