Carpenter Star Quilt Pattern Tutorial

In the olden days laundry was scrubbed on washboards hand mixed bread was baked in finicky wood burning stoves and the carpenter s star was stitched with labor intensive y seams.

Carpenter star quilt pattern tutorial.

This week jenny is whipping up an easy carpenter s star using big half square triangles. About this tutorial quilt size. Quilt backing quilt backing fabric 60 fabric 90 fabric 108 fabric 120 fabric batik fabric hand dyed batik fabrics in a variety of colors styles fabric panels hundreds of fabric panels for quilting holiday traditional baby more. Shop jenny s easy carpenter s star quilt supplies here.

Place your yellow 4 5 square on top of your purple 4 5 square right sides together. Thank goodness for modern innovations. This will give you 4 hsts per one set. Here comes the most tedious part.

Sew around your square using 1 4. For this project jenny chose an abby rose layer cake by robin pickens for moda fabrics. It was a lot of work. Https bit ly easycarpentersstar yt jenny doan demonstrates how to make an easy version of the class.

Cut your square on each diagonal as shown in the image below. Assembly directions draw a diagonal line from one corner to the opposite corner on the reverse side of each 2 7 8 background square and two.