Wonky star quilt

Have fun with this wonky star quilt pattern! A great stash buster project, or way to use up your fabric scraps!

This will be our second paper-pieced block :-) I think it is a fairly simple piecing and as you are all experienced now you should have no worries, right?! Let’s dig in…Note that this …

First let me tell you I did not design, make up or have rights to this block! This is just the way I make Wonky Stars! Here we go...

I’m a huge fan of freestyle quilting! I love to improvise and pull out scraps and make a big mess and just sort of wing it. Give me a list of 100 shapes to cut before I can even start my quilt and I’m out, haha. But give me freedom to make something up as I go along, and call it wonky? I’m so in!

Wonky Star quilt made with Napa's Block Party Club blocks - this one is off to Fairbanks with niece Ariana!

Here's a simply tutorial on how to make a 12.5" wonky star block for the Bushfire Quilt Project, which I blogged about in the previous post. (My apologies for the variations in the lighting of these photos, the clouds kept rolling in and out during this shoot. UPDATED NOTE: I wrote this tutorial, in an attempt to make the process as straight forward and simple to follow as I possibly could. However, please know that if you use triangle shapes cut a bit larger, ( by an inch or two) you will…

Wonky stars mini quilt PDF pattern. Finished size 18” (45cm) square. This is a fun stitching project, as there's quite a lot free form piecing with the stars, so one does not have to be very precise when sewing the pointy triangles. The more different they turn out, the better the "wonky" design. Fabric requirements: 12” (30cm) teal background fabric 13 x 4” by 10” (10cm) strips for star fabrics 20” (50cm) square of backing fabric 20” (50cm) square of batting / wadding 5” by 42” (15cm x…

Another Friday finish for you…and this week is a darling little baby quilt I made using some small wonky star blocks I had floating around… Usually when I make wonky star quilts I use 5…

My friend wanted to make some wonky stars today... so we worked together... and figured out how it's done. We began with 3" squares. I dug through some scraps and found some yellow. laid it down there.... Double checking that it would cover the corner of the block. Yes. It does. :) Sew it on. Press open. Trim. Using the 3" square as a guide. Viola!!! One Star point.... Only 7 more to go!!!! Two star points! Oh.... Don't they look nice? Here I am chain piecing those star points on! Much…