My favorite quilt block variation is the star block including the sawtooth star, the Ohio star, and really any shape of a star! This month the Island Batik Ambassador Challenge was to dig into the history of quilting and create a quilt inspired by the history. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the Mountain's Majesty collection.
The star block is one of the oldest blocks and honestly my research didn't yield a lot of information besides that fact that the block is really old! I did however learn a lot about quilt making history in general. I think that is something I will need to read more about in the future. My quilting journey is really young, and no one else in my family quilted before me. I picked the sawtooth star as my inspiration for this quilt.
I really enjoyed making this block and watching it grow! I used the star in a star for this block to increase the size of the sawtooth stars.
Since I was using a 10" stacker also known as a layer cake, the largest half square triangles I could make were 9" finished. These 9" finished blocks are the outside portion of my Triple Sawtooth quilt.
The quilt finishes at 36" square and is a great little baby quilt or wall hanging. I decided to do some matchstick quilting along the diagonals of the quilt, but I quickly decided it would take forever! I added some square quilting around the centers before adding more matchstick diagonals.
I also used my very cute Binding Baby to bind my quilt. These are really handy to have, especially for the larger quilts because the binding gets really long! (Get your Binding Babies here, affiliate link)
Here is the finished quilt front and back!
I was trying to get a better shot to show some of the quilting, and the best one I got was taking a photo from an angle.
This quilt is also the very first quilt that I attached one of my new woven labels! I got these from CustomLabels4U.com, and they measure 0.75"x2" finished.
What quilt block inspires you?
If you're interested in what the other Island Batik Ambassadors are making, you can check out their blogs. There are 45 ambassadors this year! Be sure to follow Island Batik on Facebook and Instagram to see the projects we all make too!
Amy at Sew Incredibly Crazy
Anita at Quilt in a not-Shell
Anna at Ark Angel Creations
Anne at Sweetgrass Designs
Barbara at Bejeweled Quilts
Bea at BeaQuilter
Carole at Carole Lyles Shaw
Connie at Freemotion by the River
Connie at Kauffman Designs
Dione at Clever Chameleon
Geraldine at Living Water Quilter
Jackie at If These Threads Could Talk
Janet at Whispers of Yore
Jeanette at Inchworm Fabrics
Jen at Patterns by Jen
Jennifer at Curlicue Creations
Jennifer at Dizzy Quilter
Jennifer at Inquiring Quilter
Jessica at Desert Bloom Quilting
Joan at Moosestash Quilting
Joyce at heARTs Creations
Karen at Sew Karen-ly Created
Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing
Laura at Slice of Pi Quilts
Leanne at Devoted Quilter
Mania at Mania for Quilts
Maryellen at Mary Mack Made Mine
Michelle at Creative Blonde
Myra at Busy Hands Quilts
Nancy at Masterpiece Quilting
Pamela at PamelaQuilts
Sally at Sally Manke
Sandra at MMM Quilts
Sarah at Sarah Goer Quilts
Sharon at Yellow Cat Quilt Designs
Sherry at Powered by Quilting <--- me!
Stephanie at Steph Jacobson
Suzy at Adventurous Applique and Quilting
Teri at Lizard Creek Quilts
Tina at Quilting Affection Designs
Toby at Gateway Quilts & Stuff
Turid at Den Syende Himmel
Vicki at Vicki's Crafts & Quilting
Join me again on Friday for Friday Foto Fun and on Sunday for the #365DayOfArtPBQChallenge! Link up and share your progress on your own projects!
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