Hi I'm Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.
Sometimes as a Grandmother you get special requests and my little granddaughter Katie
wanted a new quilt, for her new bed, in her new house. So this was the quilt I came up
with. This is a great little quilt. Looks much harder than it is! Wait till you see
how easy this goes together. This right is one 4-patch, this is four 4-patches, and this
sashing block is all we used to bring them together. And wherever they meet hey form
a star. So, it's just a great little sashing block, great little idea for a great quilt.
Let me show you how to do this. I used this line from
Riley Blake to make these blocks. It's obviously not finished yet, but it shows you how those
star points just pop. Depending on the fabric you use it will give you a different look
with your quilts.
So let's take a closer look at this quilt and how to do it. We're going to take our
4-patches. Now on these 4-patches I have a great tutorial called scrappy 4-patch, and
the link for that will be in the description, and you guys will be able to put this together.
You never have to cut a little piece. It's just all done very easily, so, check out that
tutorial on how to make a scrappy 4-patch quick and easy. So what we're going to do
is we're going to have the 4-patches and then we're going to have our 16-patch, which
is just four 4-patches sewn together.
Then what we're going to do is we're going to make these sashing blocks. Now the sashing
block is just whatever color sashing it is and then we'll snowball the corners. So
when you snowball the corners you're going to take a 2 ½" square, and you're going
to put them on each corner. Every single corner has a snowball square.
So, I'll show you how to do that. I'm going to take my little 2 ½" square, and
I'm going to come over here and press it in half. That's going to give me a line
to sew on. And I'm going to go ahead and take this over to the sewing machine and sew
this down. So here we go.
Now with these corners, because the corners are going to overlap to make star points you
just want to. Let me just get this out of the way for right now. You're only going
to be able to do two at a time. So, we're going to put another one on here. Right like
that, line it up, and then sew on that corner.
When you make these snowball blocks, you're going to want to trim these corners before
you put the next two on. So, I lay my ruler, and I put my ¼" on my ruler, on the stitch
line, and I'm just going to cut off that corner, and cut off this corner. Whoops got
that backwards. There we go ¼" on the stitch line, cut off the corner. Then we're going
to press those open.
Now this one I just ran it over I didn't even set that seam. So I need to go back and
set that seam because it just went right under the wrong way. We don't want that to happen.
OK, so now we're going to go ahead and finish the other two corners. And you'll notice
when you put them on that it's going to overlap a little bit right here. And you want
that because you want a start point like this. So this is the whole quilt! These 4-patches
and this block right here.
So when you go to put these together you're going to put a 4-patch and the block, a 4-patch
and the block. You're going to make long rows of this like this, a 4-patch and the
block. Just a long row, then your next row is going to be your 8-patch together like
this, I mean your 16-patch together, and you're going to have these on either side. Like this
and you're just going to make rows of those. So you have another 16-patch over here and
another block.
So, you'll have these two rows going. So, see here, this is the sashing block, the 4-patch,
the sashing block, the 4-patch. And your next row is your 16-patch, your sashing block,
your 16-patch, your sashing block. And when you put them all together what you get is
a row that looks like this. These are the two rows together. You can see where they
start to come together here we've got the bottom half of the star.
So, as you add these quilts to these rows, every place they meet up like this, you're
going to see this star popping out of there. So, it just makes a really fun and easy quilt,
and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, on this star sashing, from the Missouri Star Quilt
Company