There are directions for folding paper that can be cut into a 5-pointed star.

Just google - Paper folding for 5-pointed star.

Thanks. It is all hand pieced. I know grandma got a trendle sewing machine in 1927. I have it. She may have pieced this earlier. It is possible it is not my grandmother work but my aunt's work. my cousin gave it to me. my grandmother was born in 1877 but some fabrics look 1930s

Oh my goodness! I found it listed as Mountain Pink (if you google you can find pictures) in my book of Carrie Hall blocks.

https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Hall-B...5089782&sr=8-1

A top is "only as old as it's newest fabrics", at first glance I'd date yours as pre-1950, maybe made in the 40s with fabrics from earlier.

Edit: Further looking brought me to Nancy Cabot, one of the quilt newspaper ladies, also with the same name (Mountain Pink). My first book was Ruby McKim, another one of the newspaper ladies. Haven't checked there yet because I didn't ring my Ruby bell.

I don't know the name of the pattern either but it resembles something like a tulip pattern. It is a very unique block and maybe your grandmother just made up her own pattern which is what my grandmother did a lot of times. Good luck on your search and I am sure someone will come up with a name of the pattern for you.

I see the 3 points on the end of the triangles is Turkey track like. maybe I will just makeup my own name. "row river blooms" Thanks for the comment in these isolating times

Here is a free pattern and tutorial.

http://nancycabotsewalong.blogspot.c...ilt-block.html

Thank you so much. yes 1940's make since grandma died in 1966

Barbara Brackman
Number 3560, page 429, of Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

"Mountain Pink" - Aunt Martha Prize Winning Designs and Nancy Cabot 1933
"Broken Crown" - KC Star 1933

Mountain Pink. thanks to all in this time of isolation.

Very pretty. You are so lucky to have it.