turn one block into the top for an entire quilt?
10-01-2012, 11:19 AM
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Here's a block I drew in EQ. If you tell me what size you want the center to be I can PM you with rotary cutting info. It's not exactly the same; I didn't include any border around the star as I thought you'd want to do your own.
10-02-2012, 02:57 AM
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Google Giant Vintage Star quilt and youmwill find a giant star tut that uses fat quarters. One of my quilters made it in 45 minutes and took two hours to quilt it! It come out about 72" square but you can easily add borders to enlarge it
10-02-2012, 05:11 AM
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Since this looks like 1 piece repeated 8 times, you should be OK with blowing this up on a copy machine. Just make sure you don't enlarge the seam allowances too. But if this is paper pieced, each piece should work fine, then cut them with 1/4" seam allowance before assembling all 8 pieces.
It's a lovely star, and I think will look great as a top.
It's a lovely star, and I think will look great as a top.
10-02-2012, 05:24 AM
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There is a book that might help you with this. It is called Fractured Stars. A lap size quilt is shown with four large stars but the book might help you enlarge your pattern. Here it is on Amazon. Just noticed there is one 48x48 size that is one big star.
http://www.amazon.com/Fractured-Star...s+quilt+design
http://www.amazon.com/Fractured-Star...s+quilt+design
10-02-2012, 05:35 AM
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You can also just take an accurate drawing in "normal" size to Kinko's or Staples and they can enlarge it to whatever size you want. Draw a 1" square in one corner so you can verify their accuracy before you pay for it (it should blow up accurately).
10-02-2012, 06:07 AM
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I've donethis many many times for a lap/couch quilt -- here's an example tho it wasn't done yet... you just need to increase the size of the "units" - here each square finished at 5.5 inches - so with borders added it was a 58 x 70[ATTACH=CONFIG]367061[/ATTACH]
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