(But this hasn’t shown up well in my picture from EQ – it looked fine on the drawing board!)īut that central square can be used in other ways.
There are many ways to colour it and the centre square is ideal for ‘fussy cutting’ a big print. The basic Sawtooth Star is a very simple block – it has 4 Flying Geese units surrounding a large central square and four smaller squares in the corners.You can download the instructions to make a 12 inch block here. This entry was posted in beginners patchwork, Electric Quilt, free pattern and tagged beginners' patchwork, Flying Geese patchwork, four-patch block, free pattern, quilt blocks, simple patchwork on Decemby Chris.
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This last one makes a lovely Christmas runner – look out for the pattern for next year, but in the meantime here’s a photo of Helen’s made in a class at the Corner Patch last week.įinally you could put a mini Sawtooth Star in the centre square – You can add half-square triangles to the four corners – Or (as it’s that time of year) in Christmas colours – For instance, if you turn the Flying Geese around you make a block called King’s Crown –Īnd if you put these two together in a quilt – It is very simple! You can download the instructions for the basic block here.īut you can do a lot of things with it to make new blocks. The basic Sawtooth Star block has four Flying Geese units and 5 squares.