Friday Free Quilt Patterns: Checkered Star | McCall’s Quilting Blog
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It’s not often you find a triple-generation quilt. This Checkered Star antique quilt has quite a history.
The Checkered Star quilt pattern finishes at 68″ x 83″.
First, Variable Star blocks were pieced about 1900 from indigo prints and muslin. Sometime during the Great Depression, the forgotten blocks were unearthed and combined with 25-Patch blocks pieced from a decades-old stash. The quilt top was probably finished in the 1940s, when it was bound with a WWII sailor print.
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