Wonky star quilt block

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…

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 …

We will be making a wonky star charity quilt for Fisher House, which provides "comfort homes" at Eglin AFB for the families of our wounded service men and women while they are undergoing medical treatment. Some of you may have received fabric at our A&E field trip last Saturday. If you didn't receive fabric then, there may be a limited number of block kits available at the May meeting. All blocks should be returned to Susan McDuffie not later than the June 7 meeting. Marcy Gallagher made our…

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

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador You may have heard about improvisational quilting, or improv for short. This kind of freeform construction is fun and easy, and it keeps piecing interesting because every block is a new adventure. You don’t know exactly how it will look until it’s sewn together. I think improvisational work […]

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!

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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…

You all – the Wonky Quilt is done!!! This is one of those quilts that I just LOVE, for so many reasons. First, that I was able to come up with a design that I really like, which uses a fair a…

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...