Summer Star Sampler Quilt Along 2010 – Week Five

Welcome back everyone! Here you will find instructions for Week Five of Summer Star Sampler Quilt Along 2010.

Both versions of the Summer Star Sampler have the same 12 basic blocks. For the first six weeks, everyone will have the same instructions for making blocks.

Here are the fabric requirements in case you missed it.

Download Advanced Fabric Requirements (Advanced w/large center block) Download Advanced Fabric Requirements
Here’s another look at the finished Advanced Summer Sampler

Download Beginner Fabric Requirements (Beginner without center block) Download Beginner Fabric Requirements
Here’s another look at the finished Beginner Summer Sampler

Week One – blocks one and two.
Week Two – blocks three and four.
Week Three – blocks five and six.
Week Four – blocks seven and eight.
Week Five – blocks nine and ten.
Week Six – blocks eleven and twelve.
Week Seven… The advanced quilt version will make the center medallion block in week seven, and the beginners will have a week off or to catch up.
Week eight… brings squaring blocks and putting them together with sashings.
Week nine… will be the borders.

Please use this pattern only for your very own personal use. 🙂
If you own a quilt shop or would like to use these patterns in some other way, they will be available for sale very soon. Contact me if you are interested.

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Back to Week One – Blocks 1 and 2

Block Nine

Cutting Directions for Block Nine

Rose Small Floral – Cut ONE square (4 7/8) X (4 7/8) inches. Cut square once on the diagonal to yield TWO triangles. Cut ONE square (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches.

Brown Suede Large Floral – Cut ONE square (4 7/8) X (4 7/8) inches. Cut square once on the diagonal to yield two triangles. Cut ONE square (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches. Cut twice on the diagonal to yield FOUR triangles.

Sea Glass Green Medallions – Cut ONE square (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches. Cut FOUR squares (4 1/2) X (4 1/2) inchs.

Piecing Block Nine

The first step is to create the center quarter square triangle. Fabrics needed for this step are: TWO (4 7/8) inch triangles of rose small floral, and TWO (4 7/8) inch triangles of brown suede large floral. Stitch one brown triangle to a rose triangle. Repeat for the other two triangles.

Now stitch the two triangle patches together.

Now to make the two color triangles in the star points. Fabrics needed for this step are: ONE (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inch square of rose small floral, ONE (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inch square of Sea Glass Green Medallions. Mark a diagonal line on the back of the rose and green squares. Place squares right sides facing and stitch a quarter inch on either side of the marked line.

	Cut apart the half square triangles using the marked line. Press patches open.
	Cut each half square triangle in half on the diagonal. You will finish with four two color triangles.
	Now to make two of the outer corners of the block. You will need the two color triangles and TWO of the sea glass green (4 1/2) X (4 1/2) inch squares.
	Now to make the last two outer corners of the block. You will need the two remaining sea glass green (4 1/2) X (4 1/2) inch squares and the FOUR brown suede large floral (5 1/4) triangles.
	Stitch the two outer corners you just made to opposite ends of the center block. Layout the patches as shown in the picture, and sew together.

Block TEN

Cutting Instructions for Block Ten

Brown Suede Tone on tone – Cut SIXTEEN square (2 1/2) X (2 1/2) inches. Cut TWO squares (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches.

Sea Glass Green Large Floral – Cut TWO squares (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches.

Rose dot – Cut FIVE squares (4 1/2) X (4 1/2) inches.

Piecing Instructions for Block TEN

	The first step is to make four mini snowball blocks for the outer corners. Fabrics needed for this step are: FOUR (4 1/2) X (4 1/2) inch squares of rose dot, and SIXTEEN (2 1/2) X (2 1/2) inch squares of Brown suede. Mark a diagonal line on the back of the brown suede squares.
	Stitch a brown square in opposite corners of a rose dot square. Sew directly on the line. Trim away the outer corners leaving a quarter inch seam. Press patches open.

Stitch two more brown suede squares in the remaining corners of the rose dot square. Trim away the outer corner, and press blocks open.

	Next we need to stitch up FOUR quarter square triangles. Fabrics needed here are the TWO squares of sea glass green measuring (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches and TWO squares of brown suede measuring (5 1/4) X (5 1/4) inches. Mark two diagonal lines on the back of all four squares. Place one of each color right sides together and stitch a quarter inch on each side of the marked line.
	Trim the blocks apart and press open to yield FOUR half square triangles.

	Place two patches right sides facing, lining up a brown side with green side. This time, stitch on either side of the second diagonal marked line using a quarter inch seam allowance.
	Trim the squares apart on the marked line for a second time and press open. The yield will be four quarter square triangle patches.

	Lay out blocks as shown in picture. Stitch together in three rows, then stitch the three rows to finish the block.
	Block ten DONE!! Can you believe it? We only have two more small blocks to go!!!!

Please send me any questions you may have regarding this quilt along. I would love to hear your comments and suggestions!

A very special and HUGE thank you goes out to FatQuarterShop.Com for their enthusiasm and support of this project!