It’s a variation on the classic Variable Star block which is a four patch block. If the point has been cut off when I finish the seam and open it to look, I will quickly take my seam ripper and snip a few stitches in that area and restitch it with a shallower seam allowance so that the point is sharp. If the machine zags, I put that area of the seam back under the presser foot and go very slowly over it again. I stitch with the seam on the underside and the smooth fabric on the top so the presser foot won’t catch and turn the fabrics. One of the things that I find is that when I’m sewing over a “point” that will have several thicknesses of fabric from the seam, my sewing machine sometimes wants to do a curvy little zag over that lump.
Triangle Tips: Getting all those points nice and sharp should be easy if you’re careful to have consistent 1/4 inch seam allowances. I decided to show you what the block would look like set in a quilt, so you’ll see the quilt example below the block. Make the block into four units: two units with the large triangles and two units of half square triangles and squares. What is really neat is that the large 6 1/2 inch triangle is matched with a pieced triangle. This is such a pretty block and looks a lot like butterflies in a meadow. Half Square Triangle Quarter Square Triangle Block As you can see from the images, the half square triangle is a square cut once diagonally from corner to corner and the quarter square triangle is a square cut twice diagonally from corner to corner. Examples of the triangles are shown below. I will use the standard quilting terminology for squares and triangles and to include the square, half square triangle and quarter square triangle. It is in small print, so you may want to take a black Sharpie and write it larger on the side of the die so you can easily see it sitting in the rack. This item # is also written on the label on the side of the die. For that reason, I have added the Item # from the Accuquilt website. This has made writing instructions difficult because the names of the dies causes confusion as to whether it is a finished size or a cut size. The more recent dies have been named based on the finished block size. The first dies that Accuquilt released were named based on their cut size.
Note that the cut size is 1/2 inch larger than the finished size. Quilting terminology is important, particularly around that quarter inch seam allowance and the finished size verses the cut size. I think you’re going to love sewing together these triangles because the shapes are cut so that you can match the pieces end to end and not have to worry about those pointy little dog ends getting hung in the feed dogs of your machine. Today’s block is called Turnstile Pinwheel and the instructions include both a 12 inch finished block and an 8 inch finished block.
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