Greetings, fellow quilting aficionados! Welcome back to my ongoing journey through Moda Blockheads 5. If you’ve been stitching along, you know the thrill of blending fabrics, patterns, and creativity into beautiful and unique quilt blocks. Today, I embark on the Moda Blockheads 5 Group 2 Block 6, designed by the talented Melody Miller of Ruby Star Society. Get ready to be enchanted by the Favorite Vintage Star!
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Blockheads 5 Group 2 Block 6
Melody Miller brings us a block that marries the charm of vintage quilting with a modern twist. With just two quilt fabrics, Melody weaves a star pattern that’s as timeless as it is contemporary.
The quilt block patterns for the Moda Blockheads 5 quilt along are completely free and Moda offers the patterns in 2 different block sizes: 12 inch and 6 inch. For this quilt along I am using Songbook fabrics by Fancy That Design House and am making the 12 inch quilt blocks.
Moda Blockheads 5.2 Block 6 Assembly
Using two fabrics, the star points take shape in a criss cross pattern of simple piecing of rectangle pieces. To make the diagonal points on the corners, you start with your strips of the two fabrics and add half square triangles to each side. When you press the triangles to the side, you end up with an oversized corner square. With a simple trim down, you have a precisely sized square to use in the 4 corners of the block.
Favorite Vintage Star Quilt Block
The Favorite Vintage Star quilt block is definitely a unique block with both its assembly and looks.
As with all of the star blocks we’ve had so far with Blockheads 5, color placement on this block can be used to create a completely different look. I also think this would make a really cute modern single block quilt with several of the star blocks scatter throughout a solid background.
Moda Blockheads 5 Progress Recap
I am so happy with how my blocks look in the Songbook collection by Fancy That Design House. So far I have kept my blocks from the first group until the end of Moda Blockheads 5 so that I can decide if I’d like to make 1 large project or a couple smaller ones.
If you haven’t had a chance to sew the free quilt blocks from the Moda Blockheads 5 quilt along, jump right in with the second group of blocks! New blocks are released on the Moda blog on Wednesdays.
Happy quilting friends!
