One of my grandsons asked me to make a wall hanging for his new apartment. Of course, the answer was yes, and that project went to the top of the queue.
His favorite colors are orange, burgundy and robin’s egg blue. I never would have thought to put those three colors together, but after I pulled out fabric in those colors, I thought that it would work. The size would be 40″ wide by 30″ tall. On my sewing room wall is a wall hanging that is 30″ wide by 49″ tall. The size would be perfect.
The pattern is Hunters Star. It would be perfect. I could replicate this wall hanging with other colors.
When I make a Hunters Star quilt, I use Deb Tuckers Hunter Star ruler. It makes the blocks oversize. They can be trimmed to the exact size.
The strips are cut 1 3/4″. The ruler can be used for several sizes of blocks. My original quilt used 5″ blocks, so I used the 5″ markings on the ruler.
Trapezoids are cut and sewn to the side of a strip. You have to allow for extra fabric at the top when the trapezoid is flipped and pressed. Also, a 1/4″ space is necessary between trapezoids.
The trapezoids are flipped and pressed. Trimming is easy when following the lines on the ruler.
Triangles that are the same color as the trapezoid are added to the edges.
Two sides are sewn together.
The block is trimmed to the correct size.
I made extra blocks, so I had a variety of colors to choose from.
The three colors do play nicely together.
I may make another Hunters Star quilt in the future. This was fun to make.
I’ve been cutting scraps into 2 1/2″ by 4 1/2″ rectangles for potato chip blocks. Maybe I could cut strips and triangles from the scraps for Hunter Stars. Who says the triangle has to be the same color as the trapezoid or the two sides of the block have to be the same fabric? The sides would have to be reverse values. That would be a very scrapy star.
Have a great day and happy quilting.
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