Stars with Long, Spiky Points

Too bad the blues faded. This early 20th-century-quilt just out of the frame would have

been some quilt. 

The pattern is BlockBase #1623: Sun Rays. I've done a few posts on these spiky stars as a setting pattern rather than a block:

https://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2019/02/stars-in-sashing.html

The blue version above looks like the patterns is in the block set on point.

Here's the block (with the points chopped off)

Not that common

See a post on a variation we call 54-40 Or Fight

Ooops

Only published once??!

Here it is in BlockBase #1623

I gave it an apostrophe as if it belonged to Ray, but it should be Sun Rays Quilt.

I have pictures of the design going back to the 1840s

Block in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A variation?

I have just a few published patterns in this seam structure,

a nine patch with spiky points. Probably because the star points are harder

to cut than a simple half-square triangle. The block design may have been

adapted from the earlier setting pattern.

Variations as Blocks

Encyclopedia of Pieced  Quilt Patterns

BlockBase

Simple but interesting when set allover.

  

I've never seen a quilt made in BlockBase#1629 Dove at the Window,

printed in the Kansas City Star in 1945.

But this unnamed variation was popular around 1900.

It must have been published.

We'll call it BlockBase #1628

I drew it in EQ8

as a 12" block

25 blocks gives you a 60" square quilt

Cutting a 12" Block

A Cut 4 squares (2 light, 2 dark) 4-7/8". Cut each in half diagonally. You need 8 triangles.

B  Cut 2 squares (1 light, 1 dark) 5-1/8". Cut each into 4 triangles with two diagonal cuts. You need 4 triangles.

For D & C

Alternate with a 12" block with the corners cut off.

And one last variation in an odd top made of glazed solid

color fabrics. Date???

The pattern has many possibilities

If you rotate the HST corners in the pattern you'd get this

look.

Rotating every other block one turn would give you

a complicated all over design.