Stella’s Star is a 4-color, 5-fabric quilt in an on-point setting. It measures approximately 70 x 70 inches. This quilt uses two different 10 inch blocks. When they are set on point it is hard to tell where one block ends and the other begins. I like that it has almost a plaid look to it.
This design uses the Inklingo Half Square Triangle [HST] 00B and Inklingo Quarter Square Triangle [QST] 00B Collections. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.
Stella F Williamson is my great aunt. She was born in July 1872 in Rochester, New York. I don’t know much about her other than she is the oldest child of Georgianna (DeLong) Williamson, was married twice and had a least one child. I like the name Stella so that is why I chose to feature her.
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Inklingo HST 00B Collection |
(Download from website or print from collection) |
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For more information about Inklingo, click here. |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of the Quarter Square Triangle collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection[s]. |
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Fabric 1 |
2” Square | 180 | 2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection |
6″ Storm at Sea: | |||
2″ Half Square Triangles | 12] 6.25 x 12″ & 1] 6.25 x 12″ Cut and pair with Light Blue fabric and sew for 200 HST units – No need to print. |
HST 00B: 42 & 43 | |||||
2″ Quarter Square Triangle | 40 | QST 00B: | |||||
Fabric 2 |
2″ Square | 116 | 2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection |
6″ Storm at Sea: | |||
2″ Quarter Square Triangle | 20 | QST 00B: | |||||
Fabric 3 |
2” Square | 125 | 2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection. |
6″ Storm at Sea: | |||
2″ Half Square Triangle | 200 | 12] 6.25 x 12″ & 1] 6.25 x 6.5″ Print and pair with White fabric for 200 HST units. |
HST 00B: 42 & 43 | ||||
2″ Half Square Triangle | 400 | 25] 6.25 x 12″ Print and pair with Medium Blue fabric for 400 HST units. |
HST 00B: 42 & 43 | ||||
Fabric 4 |
2″ Half Square Triangle | 400 | 25] 6.25 x 12″ Cut and pair with Light Blue fabric and sew for 400 HST – No need to print. |
HST 00B: 42 & 43 | |||
Binding Strips | 8 strips | ||||||
Fabric 5 |
2″ Square | 180 | 2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection. |
6″ Storm at Sea: | |||
2″ Quarter Square Triangle | 40 | QST 00B: | |||||
Want to check my math? The Stella’s Star Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. You can also use the information above to make this quilt using the Easy Angle and Companion Angle Rulers. Check the Store tab in my blog header under Rulers for both rulers. |
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The two quilts I am featuring in this post are based on an antique quilt I found in this quilt book years ago.
This is the Electric Quilt layout based on the antique quilt. You may have seen other quilting bloggers making this same quilt.
A photo of the finished quilt top that I took with my phone shortly after I finished the quilt at the end of October. (Excuse the quality of the photo. The design wall was cluttered up with quilting projects that didn’t belong to me. I didn’t want to remove them so my photo is less than stellar. Plus the quilt top wasn’t ironed yet.) The Half Square Triangle [HST] units are 3 inches square. I printed the light fabric using the Inklingo Half Square Triangle Collection, paired it with a plaid fabric, sewed on the dotted lines, and cut on the solid lines. Perfect HST units with no papers to remove and no squaring up of the units.
Linda’s video explaining the process.
I made a smaller version using this pink fabric with floral scraps to make the HST units. Featured in the photo is my former quilting buddy lying down on the job.
The floral streak of lightning version uses 2.5 inch Half Square Triangle units. Some of my floral scraps were too small to layer with the printed 2.5 inch HSTs. I used the Easy Angle Ruler to cut Half Square Triangles from the smaller floral scraps and paired them with the Half Square Triangles printed with Inklingo and chain pieced them.
They went together beautifully.
Another less than stellar photo of my unironed floral streak of lightning quilt top hung on the same design wall in October. In the last 2 months, I have finished 4 quilt tops that have been languishing for years. One more to go to meet my goal of 5 finished tops before year end.
The easiest way to make Half Square Triangle Units!
Inklingo Half Square Triangle 00B Collection
Adeline’s Flat Iron is a 3-color, 3-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures approximately 72 x 72 inches. Because the base of the triangle is wider than it is tall, an extra row is added to the length to make this quilt almost square.
This design uses the Inklingo 4 & 2 inch 60° Triangle Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana and Stonehenge by Northcott.
Adeline (Smith) DeLong was my 3rd great grandmother in my paternal grandfather’s line. Her husband, William DeLong, was a blacksmith. I’d like to think that if they couldn’t afford commercially available flat irons, William would have made his wife a pair or ideally a set of three flat irons. Two irons would be heating on the stove while the third was in use.
[click photo to view at NYPL and click photo there for larger view]
The triangle shape of the flat iron block is reminiscent of early ironing implements.
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Adeline’s Flat Iron |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of this collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
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Fabric 1 |
2″ triangles | 756 | |||||||
Binding strips | 8 strips | // | // | ||||||
Fabric 2 |
2″ triangles | 742 |
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2″ half triangle sets | 14 left & right sets |
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Fabric 3 |
2″ triangles | 490 |
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4″ triangles | 245 |
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2″ half triangle sets | 14 left & right sets |
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4″ half triangle sets | 7 left & right sets |
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Want to check my math? The Adeline Flat Iron Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. You can also use the information above to make this quilt using 60° Triangle Rulers. Check the Store tab in my blog header under Rulers for 60° Triangle Rulers. Just be aware that some rulers measure the triangles from top to bottom instead of along the side so the finished size of your blocks and quilt might be different. |
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Adeline’s Flat Iron |
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Adeline’s Flat Iron This one is my favorite! |
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