Welcome to the next block tutorial of Diary of A Quilter’s Virtual Quilting Bee!
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The Virtual Quilting Bee is a great online Quilt-A-Long combined with great tips and tricks. Earlier this month, Mrs. Sherri of A Quilting Life showed us how to make a great Sawtooth Block.
Regarding fabric selection, I wanted to add to my current sampler quilt and use red, yellow, and grey.
If you’re still debating on color choices – try this Design Seed, Jessica puts great color palette together.
Today, I’m showing you a brand new block called the Origami Star.
Fabric Requirements:
- (4) 1.75 x 4.5 inches strips in fabric choice 1 (Strip#1)
- (4) 1.75 x 4.5 inches strips in fabric choice 2 (Strip#2)
- (4) 2.00 x 4.5 inches strips in fabric choice 3 (Strip#3)
- (12) 2.5 x 2.5 inches squares in background fabric (with a pencil or Pilot FriXion pen mark a diagonal line on each small square)
Block Construction steps:
*If you do “chain piecing” you should have this block done in less time it takes you to make dinner. Chain piecing is sewing your units in an assembly line.
Step 1: Sew strips together – you want the large strip in the middle.
- Sew Strip#1 to Strip#3
- Press seams open
- Sew Strip#2 to the other side of Strip#3
- When you’re all done you should have a block that measures 4.5 x 4.5 (square it up)
Step 2: Sew background fabric to 4.5 x 4.5 block ***W A R N I N G*** Make sure if you’re chain piecing to have each block positioned the same so you don’t mess up on background fabric placement and have to unpick
- Take (1) 2.5 x 2.5 background square block (right sides together) and line it with the top of your 4.5 x 4.5 square and sew on the line that you’ve marked.
- Trim off the corner leaving a 1/4 inch seam allowance
- Press the seam allowance open
- Place another background square on the opposite side of the square and repeat the instructions above
- Place the last background square on and repeat
Step 3: Sewing the Units together
- With a 1/4 seam allowance sew the corner units together.
- Press seams open
Please link up in the flickr group or if you’re on Instagram use the #virtualquiltingbee – I would love too see your versions of this block!!!! The next block will be 4.5.13 can’t wait to see what’s next!
p.s Stay tuned and I’ll update the block tutorial to for a 12.5 x 12.5
It is really a cute block and I appreciate the tutorial.
This is such a cool block and really creative. Can’t wait to start mine tomorrow!!
Amy! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this block! I was looking at it before reading your instructions, thinking, How did she put that together?! Then after reading the instructions – GENIUS!
Lovely block. Could you please state whether the measurements are in inches or centimetres?
Love this block! Thanks for the tutorial and being part of the virtual bee! Working on it now!
LOVE your block and the COLORS ! wow !!! I’m not doing the bee , but thought I’d leave you a comment about how fabulous it is ! May have to make the block when you post the bigger measurments for the 12.5 !
Love this block babe! Your color selection really makes it happen. Adding your tute to my block Library…
Hi Sukie!
Fabulous tutorial.
Will be making my block today.
Thanks so much!
Trish
I seriously love this block! And Origami Star is a great name!
Great block, can’t wait to get working on it tomorrow!
This is a great block, Amy! I love how you put it together. Nice color choices too.
I just finished mine! Thanks for the great block! It was the perfect quickie project this afternoon.
(added to the flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47514084@N06/8580344197/)
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Just made this block for the bee! Thanks for the great tutorial, super easy to follow. Here’s my finished block http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisaedgett/8584717138/in/pool-2149765@N20
Love your block! I’m going to make mine tonight. I miss seeing all you girls at Quilt Guild!!!
Lovely quilt block! I had to try it right away! I didn’t had some precut I thought would work, so I did mine with 2.5″ strips and some 4″ squares I already had in my stash! It turned out pretty cool! Love it!
I love your block, it is adorable. This is my first time doing a block of the month online. I am pretty new at quilting, very new. I got my Happy Go Lucky fabric so am just getting started with this. My first block is done so on to #2. A quick, hopefully not silly question, about the white that you used in your block. Is it the white pin dot in the layer cake pack that I bought?
Thanks so much for your help,
Jan
Hi! Can you tell me what the finished size is with the measurements you have? I think it’s an 8″ but I’m not sure.
Thanks!
I have read all the instructions and cannot wait to start this block. I have done 1 and 5 so far and am getting into the swing of it! I love the name and the creativity of the strips.