CQF Month 10 - April 2013 - Boxed Star

 

You've seen this block before, almost.  Last November (CQF 5 - November 2012 - Pow Wow) we made a block that is very similar.  The difference is in the center block.  Where Pow Wow had a simple patch, Block Star has a pieced square in a square.


General Description of Block:  Boxed Star redresses our old friend  in a tonal theme that moves the emphasis from the star to the boxes in the middle.  The result is new and fresh.

FQG: Your kit contains fabric for the dark purple in the center and corner blocks.  There will be more than one piece of fabric in the kit.  Please be careful to choose the right piece for the right job.  You need to add coordinating fabrics for the rest of the block. Let's try to position the colors like they are in the picture above.

Cutting Directions: (57 pieces, but some will be strip pieced to make it easier.)

• Dark Purple  (FQG Kit fabric)
• 1, 5" x 5" square (FQG this is already cut for you)
• 2, 2" x 8" rectangles 
• Medium Purple
• 3, 2" x 8" rectangle
• 1, 6 1/4" x 6 1/4" square
• sub-cut twice on the diagonal to make 4 small triangles
• Palest Purple
• 1, 6 1/4" x 6 1/4 square
• sub-cut twice on the diagonal to make 4 small triangles
• White
• 4, 2" x 8" rectangles
• 2, 6 1/4" x 6 1/4" square
• sub-cut each square twice on the diagonal to make 8 small triangles
• 4, 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" squares

Piecing Directions:

 



• Corners:
• Gather
• 9, 2" x 8" rectangles
• Sew strip sets:
• dark purple, white, medium purple
• white, medium purple, white
• dark purple, white, medium purple
• Iron seam allowances
• towards the center when the center strip is medium purple
• away from the center when medium purple is on the end.
• Cut each strip set into 4, 2" x width of set segments
• Sew one segment from each set together along the long edge to make one 5" square. It should look like the picture at the beginning of this section.
• Iron seam allowances open
• Trim block to 5" x 5" square
• Repeat 3 times to make 4 identical blocks.

• Edges:
• Gather
• 16 small triangles
• Sew 4 pair palest purple/white triangles,
• Sewing from the right angle toward the point with the white triangle on the bottom.
• Sew one white and one palest purple small triangle together along the short side.
• Iron seam allowance toward the white triangle.
• Repeat 3 times for 4 large palest purple/white triangles
• Sew 4 pair medium purple/white triangles
• Sewing from the right angle toward the point with the white triangle on the bottom.
• Sew one white and one medium purple small triangle together along the short side.
• Iron seam allowance toward the white triangle.
• Repeat 3 times for 4 large medium purple/white triangles.
• Sew palest purple/white triangle to medium purple/white triangle along the hypotenuse
• be careful not to stretch the pieces
• snuggle seams together at center.
• Pop center seam and iron seam allowances in a swirl.
• Repeat 3 times for 4 blocks.
• Trim blocks to 5" x 5" square

• Center:
• Gather:
• 4 white 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" squares
• 1 dark purple 5" x 5" square
• Draw a diagonal line on the back of each white square
• Align white square with corner of dark purple square with drawn line parallel to the corner, right sides together.
• Sew next to and to the outside of the drawn line. 
• Iron so that the white square gets folded in half along your stitching line creating a dark purple square with one white corner.
• Repeat process on next three corners in succession to make one dark square with four white corners.
• Trim block to 5" x 5"

• Assemble block:
• Iron seam allowances toward edges made from large triangles.

Bring your finished block(s) to the April meeting of the Frisco Quilt Guild to be eligible for the drawing.

The winner of the drawing will receive all of the blocks submitted and be able to make a quilt that looks something like these....

 

Made from 16 blocks with two borders.

 

Made from 30 blocks.