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Starfire Quilt
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Starfire

Starfire is the featured collection for our newest free project, reminiscent of starry night skies. The cool jewel tone blues, purples and greens work beautifully with prints from Nightscape tone-on-tone blacks. Designed, sewn and quilted by Jean Biddick.


Starfire
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You'll need
  • R16 STARFIRE - ¼ yard of each of the 17 prints
  • R18 NIGHTSCAPE - ¼ yard of your choice of two Nightscape prints
    (160-112K and 167-112K were used in this quilt)
  • 4 yards 164-112K - black star print for backing

 

Block #1
Block#1
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Block #2
Block #2
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Piecing for block #1
Piecing for block #1
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  1. sew partial seam
  2. add completed sections #2, 3 and 4
  3. complete the rest of the 1st seam

Block #1 Template
Block #1 Template
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Templates for 12.00x12.00 block #1
Key Block (1/5 actual size)


Rotary cutting guide:
(for one block)

Background
(aqua in colored picture)
  • 2 template key cut 4 7/8" = 4 triangles
  • 4 template key cut 2 7/8" = 8 triangles
  • 4 template key cut 2 1/2"
Dark
  • 2 template key cut 2 1/2"
  • 2 template key cut 2 7/8" = 4 triangles
  • 2 template key cut 3 3/8"
  • 1 template key cut 5 1/4" = 4 triangles (enough for two blocks)
Medium

Same cutting as Dark

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Piecing for block #1
Piecing for block #2
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Templates for 12.00x12.00 block #2
Key Block (1/5 actual size)


Rotary cutting guide:
(for one block)

Background
(aqua in colored picture)
  • 2 template key cut 4 7/8" = 4 triangles
  • 4 template key cut 2 7/8" = 8 triangles
  • 4 template key cut 2 1/2"
Dark Blue
  • 1 template key cut 4 1/2"
Lighter Blue
  • 4 template key cut 4 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Background (aqua in colored picture)
  • 2 template key cut 2 1/2"
  • 1 template key cut 2 7/8" = 2 triangles
    (cut the above pieces from each of the 4 different fabrics to match fabrics of adjoining block #1's)
Block #2 Template
Block #2 Template
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*Click on image to view a printable version

 

 
 
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