Another Fractured Quilt Block

Ribbon Star block is a great 3 by 3 square grid layout block that has "ribbons" that are formed when multiple blocks are grouped together. It's a very simple block that uses half square triangle units and squares.

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 10 - Ribbon Star

 The Ribbon Star block is made with half square triangle units and squares. There are a variety of ways to make a half square triangle unit - from squares, strips or using templates and more. To make the strip cutting widths all the same, I'm going to use the strip method and cutting using a side right triangle ruler. You can make other projects using the fabric instruction calculator at my website.

Quilt block calculators

Block calculators up and running...

1. Jewel Box: block, quilt
2. Ribbon Star: block, quilt
3. Four Square ^New!: block, quilt, potholders
4. Dancing Pinwheel (a.k.a.Trailing Star, Mosaic, Mosaic #1, Old Poinsetta and Spinning Stars: block
5. Balkan Puzzle: block, quilt
6. Half Square Triangles: block
7. Four Patch: block
8. Starflower: block
9. Ohio Star: block
10. Quarter Square Triangle: block
11. Clay's Choice ^New!: block
12. Jacob's Ladder ^New!: block
13. Nine Patch: block
14. Nine to Four: block
15. Eight Point Design ^New!: block

While doing research on the history of different quilt blocks, I found a website (Hart Cottage Quilts) that shows some copies of quilting publications from the early 1900's. It's fun to look up these things and actually see old documents and I hope to find more.

Have a Great Day!

Jeanne