{"id":55510,"date":"2022-03-29T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=55510"},"modified":"2022-03-27T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:24:32","slug":"missouri-star-quilt-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/missouri-star-quilt-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Star Quilt Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53502\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53502\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Double Missouri Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210705_142938_wm-sm.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Missouri Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/missouri-star-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a few months ago<\/a> when I tried out a Missouri Star block that I had seen on their weekly show?<\/p>\n<p>I like this block, but I did not enjoy making it. I has been hanging on my design wall for months and I wanted to do something with it. For a few weeks I have been thinking of adding another round of star points and making it into a donation top. Over the weekend I did that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55512\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220326_192427_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55512\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220326_192427_wm-sm-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Missouri Star donation top\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220326_192427_wm-sm-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220326_192427_wm-sm-768x797.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220326_192427_wm-sm.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 85vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missouri Star donation top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/triangle-technique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triangle Technique<\/a> to make HSTs. While this is a great chart, and covers the most used sizes, it doesn&#8217;t go up to making 8&#8243; (and larger) units. I guessed about the starting sizes and was a little bit off.<\/p>\n<p>I had to add a little strip to each HST to make them fit. It is not super noticeable and will be fine for a community quilt. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few months ago when I tried out a Missouri Star block that I had seen on their weekly show? I like this block, but I did not enjoy making it. I has been hanging on my design wall for months and I wanted to do something with it. For a few weeks I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/missouri-star-quilt-top\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Missouri Star Quilt Top&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[137,355],"class_list":["post-55510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55514,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510\/revisions\/55514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}