In this installment of the 19th Century Sampler quilt, I have only one block. It is a block pattern that stands on it's own, the Feathered Star. It is a block pattern that demands a high level of skill to make, but you are going to learn an easy way to make it. I found this pattern on line at McCall's quilting. I will give you the link below for the free PDF down load. Also included is a 2 part video on how to paper piece. It is from Quilty and is a great tutorial if you have never paper pieced before. So come and spend some time with DK Quilt Guild.
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Feathered star quilts was a very early pattern that was made for good quilts. It took skill to make one and time. This would have been a project for a hope chest and took time to make. I have seen antique quilts as early as 1840 that were feathered stars. In fact is was one of the patterns that had a name. It would have also taken some skill to draft the pattern. Here is a links to a antique quilts that are a feathered star.
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The feathered star I made was paper pieced. The small half squares are very small so the best solution is to paper piece them to make them in prefect points.
I have selected a good video on paper piecing for beginners. This is from Quilty and it is a 2 part video.
I used artist tracing paper to paper piece with. My printer can handle it. I like it because it is opaque and I can see through it. I also have a light box but I like the opaque tracing paper. It speed things up if you don't have to flip back and forth.
I found this pattern at McCall's Quilting on line. The pattern is called Tribute to York County. York County Pa. is were many very early quilts and their patterns are found. Women had access to beautiful fabrics that was imported in and later fabrics from New England Mills.
The pattern is free and comes in a PDF file that you can down load. If you are interested in this block pattern I would go ahead and down load it now because they don't always keep the patterns on line. I would also print it out for your pattern collection. Look around you may see some other patterns that are offered from past magazines.
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For this block we will only be working with page 5 of the PDF. which has just the paper piecing pattern for the feathered star.
You will need four different fabrics. I chose unbleached muslin for the background and traditional red, green and yellow.