Friendship star

Elly's Freindship Star on the left, Martha's on the right.
To see other interpretations of this block, look here.

This is a very simple star to make, and therefore also has very simple printing instructions.

Uses Collection # 2 and finishes at 6"

HST means Half Square Triangle

One Block
Fabric 1 (Background fabric) :
3.5 x 7" for printing
5.75" square for printing

Fabric 2 (Focus fabric) :
1 square, 2.5"
3.5 x 7" (for layering with the printed fabric)
(OR, if you're handpiecing, print this piece too)

Read this file on Printing Custom Sizes.
On making HST and QST with Inklingo, check out the Triangle Tips (another free pdf from Linda Franz) or the Inklingo Handbook p.58-63, OR Linda's new video on her blog, right here.


From page 70 of Collection # 2, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your lightest fabric.
Cut a 3.5 x 7" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.

Print.

Layer the two fabrics that are each 3.5 x 7", right sides together.
Sew on the diagonal (dotted) lines.
Cut on all the straight (whole) lines.
Iron your HST to the dark.


From page 59 of Collection # 1, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your lightest fabric. Cut a 5.75" square and same size of freezer-paper.

Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.

Print.

Cut apart.

Lay out your solid and your HST squares to form a friendship star.

Join as you would a 9-patch.

Finished

If you know of other patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 1657 (at least that's the one which comes the closest).