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Stella-smStella’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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Stella
Stella’s Star
70 x 70 inches

9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence

9020-51 Toscana Buttercup9020-51 Toscana Buttercup

9020-40 Toscana Morning Mist9020-40 Toscana Morning Mist

9020-444 Toscana Got the Blues9020-444 Toscana Got the Blues

9020-720 Toscana Granny Smith9020-720 Toscana Granny Smith

Purchase and download:

Inklingo HST 00B Collection
[You can also use the 6” Storm at Sea Collection to print both the 2” Squares and 2” HST]

cover-TRI-QST-00B115Inklingo QST 00B Collection


The Inklingo Handbook

cheat-sheet
Cheat Sheet

(Download from website or print from collection)

For more information about Inklingo, click here.

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].

Fabric

Yardage

Shape

# of Shapes

Cut & Print

Page # in shape collection

Fabric 1
White

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
Yellow

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
Light Blue

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
Medium Blue

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
Green

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.

Linda’s Triangle Tips 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.

plaid-streak-EQ7This is the Electric Quilt layout based on the antique quilt. You may have seen other quilting bloggers making this same quilt.

plaid-streakA 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.

quilt-helperI 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.

floral-streak-HSTThe 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.

floral-streak-chain-piecingThey went together beautifully.

floral-streakAnother 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 IronAdeline’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.

Farmer’s wife, ironing in kitc... Digital ID: 93948. New York Public Library
[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

Adeline’s Flat Iron
72 x 72 inches
(Note: There is not a seam in the middle of the finished yellow triangle blocks.
It only shows as a result of creating the block in EQ7)

9020-442 Toscana Delphinium
9020-442 Toscana Delphinium

9020-520 Toscana Sunflower
9020-520 Toscana Sunflower

9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence
9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence

Purchase and download:


Inklingo 60° Triangle Collection


The Inklingo Handbook

cheat-sheet
Cheat Sheet

(Download from website or print from collection)

 For more information about Inklingo, click here.
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.

Fabric

Yardage

Shape

# of Shapes

Cut & Print

Page # in shape collection

Fabric 1
Blue

2″ triangles 756
Binding strips 8 strips  //  //

Fabric 2
Yellow

  2″ triangles 742

 

 

2″ half triangle sets 14 left & right sets

 

 

Fabric 3
White

  2″ triangles 490

 

 

4″ triangles 245

 

 

2″ half triangle sets 14 left & right sets

 

 

4″ half triangle sets 7 left & right sets

 

 

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.

Additional Colorways

Adeline1 recolor

Adeline’s Flat Iron
Recolor 1

3951-23 Stonehenge
3951-23 Stonehenge

3954-197 Stonehenge
3954-197 Stonehenge

3934-195 Stonehenge
3934-195 Stonehenge

 

Adeline2 recolor

Adeline’s Flat Iron
Recolor 2

This one is my favorite!

9020-85 Toscana Wild Orchid
9020-85 Toscana Wild Orchid

9020-830 Toscana Lilac
9020-830 Toscana Lilac

9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence
9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence

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My focus in 2017:

Sewing in 2017

  • 1 Year of Stitches embroidery project
  • Hexiflowers (aka Grace's Garden)
  • Death Star pillow
  • Tonopah Nevada topographical map
  • 1855 Wales Center map
  • Winnie the Pooh map
  • Ethan's Quilt
  • Thea's Quilt
  • Rachelle Fae CQ block
  • Machine quilting with a walking foot

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