Vintage Block Along - Block 11 - Sunday Star Block Tutorial

Welcome to another episode of the 

Vintage Block Along

I'm sharing another 

vintage block pattern from 

Grandma's pattern basket.

I'm using my 

Farm Girl Vintage Fabric 

to make each block.

All of the blocks that 

we are making will eventually 

make their way into a quilt!

Todays block finishes at 

14" and is called

SUNDAY STAR

This photo may look familiar to you:)

It's me when I was 3 years old!

This is where you would find me

 every Sunday morning

 when I was little.

Sitting under the hairdryer...

with pink curlers in my hair.

When my hair was dry 

Mom would comb it out..

put a dress on me

and get me all ready for church:)

The pink bonnet hair dryer 

hooked up to the vacuum!

There was a switch that would

 blow air out and that's

 what it was used for.

And yes...

the air was clean and NOT

 hooked up to the vacuum bag lol.

If you didn't have time to 

hang out with these vintage ladies

 at the beauty parlor...

 then having the convenience of

 a portable hair dryer at home 

was the way to go!

That's me on the end...

 singing and holding a flower

and after the hair dryer 

 on an Easter Sunday morning. 

My hair never did hold a 

curl very well and still doesn't:)

My 3 older sisters and I 

spent a lot of time

  under the hair dryer for 

many special occasions...

 but every week it was for

 church on Sunday.

Of course grandma was already there

  when we arrived...

saving a place for us 

on the long wooden benches.

We all wanted to sit next to her.

She would help us to 

be reverent and sit still 

by doing small things for us.

She let us wear her necklace 

for a few minutes...then she

 made dolls from our hankies:)

Grandma always kept her purse 

stocked well with 

fruit flavored Certs and 

plenty of Life Savers:)

My favorite was butterscotch and still is!

Afterwards we always had Sunday dinner

 with Grandma...

either at our house or at hers.

And after that...

all of us cousins would play outside

 until it was dark:)

Then it was time for 

board games and cards.

When I say "we"...

I mean Aunts and Uncles 

and cousins as well.

Sunday was a day for family!

Some of our favorites were 

Rook...Pit and RACKO!

So I named this block Sunday Star 

because I loved Sundays 

and I loved that we 

spent them with Grandma.

I chose this teal diamond print

 from my Bee Backgrounds collection 

for this block:) 

From your background you will need to cut:

4 - 4 1/2" squares

4 - 3 1/2" squares

4 - 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"

8 - 2 1/2" squares

From the center fabric cut:

1 - 4 1/2" square

8 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

From the outside fabric cut:

4 - 2 1/2" x 5 1/2"

4 - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

8 - 2 1/2" squares

Grab the rectangles from the 

star print and the 8 

smallest background squares.

You will make the star points

 by sewing easy corner triangles 

onto one end of each rectangle.

Mark a line on the background squares

 or use the

 Seams Sew Easy Guide

If you need to see how I 

put mine on my machine...

CLICK HERE 

Remember to sew 4 going one way 

and 4 going the other like this.

Trim off the excess...

press and trim for a total of 8.

Now sew them together and 

set aside for a minute.

Now grab the 4 background rectangles

 and the 8 smallest gray squares

 to make 4 flying geese.

Remember that you have to sew 

all of the easy corner triangles 

to one side before you can 

add the other sides.

You should have a total of 4

 that measure 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"

Sew the star points segments

 on top of the flying geese 

like this and set aside.

You should have a total of four 

that each measures 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" 

Now grab the remaining pieces 

(EXCEPT for the 4 1/2" background squares)...

Ans sew four segments like this.

You should have a total of 4 

that measure 5 1/2" square.

Now lay them all out onto

 your large design board.

Sew the 3 rows together first ...

and sew those rows together.

This block is cute...

but to finish for a Sunday Star 

you will need to add the 

easy corner triangles onto each corner.

Draw a line from corner to corner 

onto the wrong side of the 

background square and sew it on.

Trim off the excess and press!

Now those gray prints form a circle surrounding the star.

I love it!

An entire quilt of this block

 would be gorgeous...but I have

 said that about every vintage block 

we have done so far lol

This is a great vintage block 

and it was fun to figure out the 

redrafting it so that we can 

rotary cut it instead of 

using templates like grandma did:)

Your Sunday Star Block should 

measure 14 1/2" square at this point:)

Here's the back of my block 

if you want to see how I pressed it.

Thanks for sewing vintage

 with me today!!

See you next week:)

xx

Lori

P.S. If you are just joining us 

and want to sew vintage blocks with me...

click on each block 

that we have already sewn

 for that tutorial:

1. Grandma's Star

2. Pattern Basket

3. Around the Corner

4. Little Farmhouse

5. Rhinestone 

6. Vintage Lily

7. Star Shine

8. Humble

9. Egg Money

10. Quilting Bee