6"Friendship Star

This is a fast and easy block for those times when you need something quick.

You will need scraps of 2 fabrics. A background and a main fabric.

  1. From Background cut 2 3" squares and 4 2.5" squares
  2. From the main fabric cut 2 3" squares and 1 2.5" square
  3. layer each 3" square of background with a 3" square of main fabric right sides together
  4. cut on the diagonal - you will have 8 layered triangle pairs.
  5. Stitch each triangle pair along the long diagonal side with a scant 1/4" seam.
  6. Press toward main fabric

  1. stitch the half square triangles with the squares in three rows as pictured

Your final block should look like this: