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A Feather Edged Star, such as the block sketched here, is not such a quick
and easy thing to achieve, and yet when you consider that only 9 blocks are
required for a quilt - and such a quilt - the undertaking is not so tremendous
after all.
Little white and red triangles piece together into squares, then strips; they
edge a triangle marked "8 yellow" and complete a larger triangle by adding the
small diamond to which 2 tiny white triangles have been added. The large
diamonds have triangles added to them to piece the center square, and the
corner squares of white may be cut square instead of pieced from triangles if
the star is worked up in this sequence.
Seams are not allowed. The borders of plain which are added to make the
complete top the desired size are often wider top and bottom than side borders,
so the finished top may be longer than wide.
Material Estimate: Nine of the 25-inch blocks finish into a
quilt top about 75x75 inches square, 3 blocks wide by 3 long. It requires 4
yards white, 4 yards red, and 2 yards of yellow, or a total of 10 yards of
material. This does not include border, In quilting an all pieced design, like
this, simply follow the sewing seams. Small feather circle might be
transferred onto the center star, and cable or feather band borders for
edge bands.
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