Be taught Deb Tucker’s oh-sew enjoyable Hunter’s Star method! We all know that the Hunter’s Star quilt is probably going on many bucket lists — it’s a significantly hanging and dynamic design. But it surely may also be a irritating design, with numerous shapes and daunting angles. Fortunately, Deb Tucker and her workshop Hunter’s Star Made Straightforward will aid you grasp this Hunter’s Star method very quickly. Preserve studying to be taught extra about this enjoyable block and Deb’s workshop!

Be taught from the Finest

Hello everyone. My title is Deb Tucker. My enterprise title is a Studio 180 Design and also you’re right here with me at present to study making Hunter’s Star quilts. A few of you will have this quilt in your bucket checklist. I do know it was on my bucket checklist for 25 plus years and I all the time struggled with the strategies that had been on the market for producing the Hunter’s Star. So I’ve provide you with a revolutionary new approach to have the ability to make the Hunter’s Star block itself! An added bonus? This strip piecing Hunter’s Star method streamlines an entire course of and permits you to make a Hunter’s Star in a way more affordable time.

Earlier than we get happening any of the Hunter’s Star method classes, what I’d love to do is introduce you to what most of us consider because the Hunter’s Star. In the event you have a look at the block right here, you’ll see that that is what most individuals suppose is a Hunter’s Star block. However when you have a look at a block encyclopedia, this isn’t what they present is a Hunter Star block. What they present is a Hunter’s Star block is one thing that appears like this. Lots of people will have a look at that and suppose, properly, there isn’t even a star in there. Effectively, there isn’t. However once you put the blocks collectively, the intersection on the corners will truly make the celebs that you simply see within the within the blocks.

The way it All Started

Historically, the Hunter’s Star block seemed just like the one that you simply see behind me. Right here on the left the place it, uh, has a powerful diagonal. Half the block is darkish and half the block is gentle. However once more, earlier than we get too far into the entire quilt, let’s check out the block. If you have a look at the block, you’re going to see that there are some acquainted shapes. Two of the shapes that you simply see are triangles. You will have diamonds which are within the nook, after which you could have a form that’s in between. That’s known as a trapezoid.

Now, this wasn’t all the time the case with the Hunter’s Star. A few hundred plus years in the past, the Hunter’s Star block was truly made by piecing a darkish triangle with a light-weight triangle. And really applique’ing the diamonds into the nook. Now, that was very time intensive and never a what lots of people love to do. After they made the Hunter’s Star block in in regards to the 1930’s, the Hunter’s Star block grew to become a very piece block that had that separate trapezoid form that’s within the center.

Tons of Methods

There are lots of totally different strategies together with diamonds being appliquéd within the nook of a bit sq. which are on the market for making the Hunter’s Star block. One of many strategies is definitely doing conventional templates the place you chop a template for the triangles, you chop a template for the diamonds perhaps, and also you’ll have a template for the trapezoid as properly. After which attempt to match all the pieces collectively. That’s just a little bit difficult due to the angles which are concerned with the work.

A number of the different methods which are on the market are, you can also make this with half sq. triangles. In the event you look within the nook right here, you’ll see that you’ve got a half darkish and a half gentle, half sq. triangle. And when you have a look at different, you may see, start to see the place this is likely to be pieced as you may see that this is likely to be pieced and could be pieced utilizing half sq. triangles. And there’s additionally paper basis piecing. A few years in the past, I used to be talked into educating a category on Hunter’s Star and I knew that none of these earlier strategies for making the Hunter’s Star block had been going to be acceptable to the group of quilters that I used to be working with.

Play with Form and Colour

So I began enjoying round with a method that permits me to take the trapezoid form, put outsized items on the top, put an outsized triangle on there in order that once I full my block and my development, it’s outsized and I get to trim it down and clear it up as we go. And that’s sort of the premise for the fast fireplace Hunter’s Star, a method that you simply’re going to be studying about on this collection of courses. However the blocks once more, once you make them and you place 4 of them collectively, you may see the place the Hunter’s Star comes from.

The great factor about utilizing my fast fireplace technique is once you go to place your blocks collectively due to the development course of, each one in every of them will match completely one to the subsequent to the subsequent and also you’re going to have lovely trying Hunter star quilts on the finish. The one of the vital vital issues that we’re going to discover on this collection of courses will not be solely the development of your Hunter’s Star blocks, however we’re additionally going to discover the designs you could make utilizing these pieced half sq. triangles, a darkish half, a darkish half sq. triangle and a light-weight half sq. triangle.

Be taught to Create a Masterpiece

Historically, they all the time put a darkish and a light-weight collectively, however as quickly as I acquired round to enjoying with a few of the designs and mixing up that situation and generally placing a darkish piece with a darkish half with a darkish half and a light-weight half with a light-weight half, I opened up an entire can of worms for making a bunch of various designs. The software is part of the method and you’ll have to personal it to have the ability to work by this system that we’re going to work on. It’s known as fast fireplace Hunter’s Star.

And the e book that we’re going to be working with is named the Hunter’s Star Hidden treasures. And I name it hidden treasures due to course, you can also make very many alternative designs and we’re gonna speak about that by the collection of courses.