Thursday, October 6, 2011

A Sawtooth Star Quilt

The Sawtooth Star block is a very traditional quilt block that appears often in quilt history books, including in a simple color palette such as this.


I've been focused on making more Sawtooth Star blocks this week, and it was a task that took longer than anticipated.  The trickiest part of the block is piecing accurate Flying Geese Units, with each block requiring 4 such units.  I ended up making 25 Sawtooth Star Blocks which requilred 100 Flying Geese Units as well as persistence!


And ... I am really liking how this quilt top has turned out.  I've joined the blocks together with a relatively wide sashing which spaces out the blocks and balances the colors. 


This quilt top is in need of  a border.  I am down to the last few scraps of the ocean green solid fabric so that is not an option.  So I am thinking yellow.  A yellow border.  We'll see.

As always, thank you for stopping by,
Rita