Deb’s Spikey Starz Cot Quilt Instructions

BLOCKS
Make four 8”, eight 6” and four 4” Spikey Starz blocks.
Deb made hot pink starz with yellow backgrounds and vivid blue centres.

Stitch them together in four, 8” x 24” rows.
Each row contains one 8”, two 6” and one 4” blocks.
-the 6” blocks need a 2 1/2” x 6 1/2” gap filler attached to make row size.
-the 4” blocks need a 4 1/2” square gap filler attached to make row size.

INNER BORDER
Cut two sides, 1” x 32 1/2”. Stitch on.
Cut a top and bottom, 1” x 25 1/2”. Stitch on.

OUTER BORDER
Make twenty-two 4” Spikey Starz blocks.
Deb made yellow starz with hot pink backgrounds and vivid blue centres.
To set them on point;
Cut forty-four 5” squares. Cut them in half diagonally to make eighty-eight triangles. Stitch on two opposite corners first, centring them. Trim the edges level with the blocks. Stitch on the last two corners.

Trim the four corner blocks to 6 1/2” square.
Trim the other eighteen blocks to 6 1/2” x their maximum length possible;
Stitch together 5 blocks to equal 32 1/2” for the sides, trimming their lengths as necessary. Stitch on.
Stitch together 4 blocks to equal 25 1/2” for the top and bottom, trimming their lengths as necessary. Stitch a corner block on each end. Stitch on.

FINISHING/QUILTING
Sandwich.
Machine quilt around the starz, their centres and the border in the ditch. Free machine quilt a version of spikey starz in the backgrounds.
Bind and label.



made by Debbie Ogilby, 2002
©Copyright Jan Mullen 2002