Courthouse Stars

The beginnings of the Courthouse Stars  Quilt.  The Courthouse Star quilt was featured on the cover of Fons and Porter Scrappy Quilts magazine!  Saw the cover and absolutely needed to buy the magazine.  There are several quilts I want to make in this issue so the price was a bargain.  The quilt consists of two blocks: a Star block, made with hour glass blocks, and a Courthouse Steps block.  The unfinished blocks measures 5".  Here's a sample of the blocks.

The Star block center is a 2" square and the points begin with 3"square . I used method for hour glass shapes suggest by Fons and Porter in the magazine to complete the Star Points. The Courthouse Steps begin with a 2" red square and 1 1/4" strips.  Loads of pieces, Yikes!  The most time consuming part of these blocks is the squaring up of the star points.  Now onto makes all the blocks and assembling the rows. Stay tuned for the next step.