My friend wants an Ohio Star lap quilt and I am thinking that done traditionally that is a little too much trouble. Does anyone know of a speed method or a fairly simple star pattern. I am wanting something one might make as a charity quilt - something to be whipped up in a few weeks. Thanks for any help.
It's not that difficult to rotary cut and piece.
Here's a set of instructions:
Here's another Ohio Star pattern. This one alternates with a simple appliqué block. Might make your quilt go faster.
If you look at the instructions carefully, the star is set on point and the heart is appliqued at the intersection - which doesn't seem speedy to me, appliqueing on a bigger piece is much more unwieldy than on to a small piece.
Ohio stars on point look like variable/saw tooth stars on point and vice versa. I think a variable/sawtooth star is marginally faster to piece than an ohio star, so you could do that and set it on point.
Anne
Friendship Star might work.... Using Thangles you can create a LOT of perfect HST's pretty quickly. Yes you have to tear the paper off... but I shorten my stitch WAY WAY much -- and the paper tears easily!
Here is one I did and it took me about a week from buying the fabric to sewing on the binding
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Make one huge Ohio Star block, add a border or two, and you're done :)
Or make 4 18" stars, add sashing and a border or two.
Julia in MN
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Idahoqltr wrote:
I couldn't get your link to work John, so I'm posting the one I pulled to see if it works!
Dannielle
I left off the L in the html. sorry about that.
There's a book called Fast Patch by Anita Hallock. Your library might have it, it'S 20 years old. Her method is a it counter-intuitive, but if you follow all the instructions, you can make a whole lot of Ohio Stars relatively quickly. Roberta in D
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