How to Make a Carpenter Star Quilt
Carpenter star quilts are a beautiful display of hard work, great effort and talent. This is a pattern that is loved by many and with the right instructions and materials can be made by anyone with time and paitence for quilting. Carpenter quilts make wonderful gifts for any occasion and show how much someone cares.
Items needed:
- Fabric (2)
- Background fabric
- Batting
- Baking fabric
- Sewing machine
- Safety pins
Instructions:
- Preshrink the fabric by washing and drying it as you would any other item. Iron the fabric to reduce wrinkles and fold until ready to use.
- Take one of the two fabrics that have been selected to work with (refer to these as fabric A and fabric B) and cut 16 two-inch squares. Set these aside. Also from fabric A, cut 14 two-and-a-half inch squares. Set these aside as well. Take fabric B and cut 12 two-and-a-half inch squares. Set these aside. Take the background fabric and cut eight two-inch squares. Set these aside and then cut 14 two-and-a-half inch squares. All of the -two-and-ahalf inch squares will be cut into half squares once sewn.
- Mark the center line in all of the two-and-a-half inch backround fabric squares and in six of the fabric B squares.
- Sew together six of the fabric A and background fabric squares. Sew together eight of the fabric A and background fabric squares and then sew together six of the fabric A and fabric B squares. Cut each of these into half squares, press together and then square up to two inches. Lay these squares out into a carpenter style pattern and then sew together.
- Repeat these steps as needed to increase the size of the quilt. If the quilt is being made for a child, less fabric will be required. If the quilt is being made for an adult, more fabric will be used.
- Align the batting fabric and the baking fabric evenly to the front of the quilt. Put safety pins in place to hold the even parts together. Sew the three layers together.