Choose one of these 4 color themes to make your quilt.
You need to use all 5 colors and ONLY these colors in your quilt.
Any size - any design - any fabric in these colors.
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April Block Lotto
Arrows Away
11.5" unfished square. Blocks are due at the April meeting. Each block you make will get you one entry toward winning the lot. If there are enough blocks to make more than one quilt, we will draw more than one winner.
Arrow side of HSTs - Medium to Dark Blues
Border and Light side of HSTs - white/low volumes
Make 4 HST’s per block that measure 4 ½” unfinished. Please use either the 4 at a time tutorial below or use the 8 and make enough for 2 blocks at once.
Border strips – 8.5” x 2” (2 qty)
11.5” x 2” (2 qty)
Layout 4 HST in the pattern below and sew together into a 4 patch block and press your seams. Attach the 8.5"x2" strips to each side and press. Attach the 11.5"x2" strips to the top and bottom and press. Trim to 11.5" unfinished.
4 HST at a time tutorial (handle w/ care will have bias edges)
https://homemadeemilyjane.com/4-at-a-time-half-square-triangles/
8 HST at a time tutorial if you want to make 2 blocks. This method also doesn’t have bias edges.
1st Quarter Challenge - Panel Challenge
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Blazing Star Block
OMQG February 2023 Block of the Month (BOM) Printable Link to Pattern
Block Origins: Nancy Cabot published the Blazing Star block pattern in the Chicago Tribune in 1933 in her daily quilting column.
This 12-inch (finished size) block can be constructed with the Accuquilt BOB die, paper-piecing or templates. Please read all instructions before beginning.
Fabric Suggestions – It’s YOUR Quilt, choose what makes YOU happy! You need five fabrics for this block as pictured.
Background fabric -- solid or tone-on-tone (TOT) print
Medium Outer Star Points fabric – select two fabrics in with a medium value. Dark Inner Star Points fabric – select two fabrics with a darker value.
Choose your cutting method or paper piecing:
Rotary Cutter and Templates (template link)
• Background – Pieces A & AR (eight pieces)
• Cut four of each pieces A & AR
• Medium Outer Star Points – Pieces B & BR (eight pieces, four of each color) • Cut four B pieces in medium fabric #1
• Cut four BR pieces in medium fabric #2
• Dark Inner Star Points – Pieces C & CR (eight pieces, four of each color) • Cut four C pieces in dark fabric #1
• Cut four CR pieces in dark fabric #2
Accuquilt 12” Blazing Star BOB die
• Background – Pieces A & AR (eight pieces)
• Cut four 4” x 9” rectangles. Stack rectangles in
pairs, wrong sides together.
• Sub-cut four pairs of Shape A, wrong sides
together
• Medium Outer Star Points – Pieces B & BR (eight pieces,
four of each color)
• Starch fabric for best results before cutting • Cut two 4” x 8” rectangles each from two medium fabrics
• Sub-cut shape B with medium fabric #1 pieces stacked wrong sides up • Sub-cut four Shape B with medium fabric #2 pieces stacked right sides up
• Dark Inner Star Points – Pieces C & CR (eight pieces, four of each color) • Cut two 4” x 10” rectangles each in two different fabrics
• Sub-cut shape B with dark fabric #1 stacked wrong sides up
• Sub-cut four Shape B with dark fabric #2 stacked right sides up
Paper Piecing Option (pattern link)
● Print 4 copies of the link above. Measure the top side of A1 to make sure it is 6" before continuing.
1. Use scant ¼” seam allowance.
2. Construct four blocks as indicated in steps 1 – 4 of the sewing instructions. These should measure 6 ½”.
3. Lay out blocks as indicated in diagram and sew together in steps 5 – 6.
Block Assembly instructional video by Eleanor Burns & Accuquilt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtNmWuvpEE
PDF sewing instructions:
https://www.accuquilt.com/media/assets/blockassembly/55051-go-blazing-star-instrucs.pdf
General Paper Piecing instructional video by Angela Walters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Kx4Q7JSwQ
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