Week 4 of the 2026 WINTER QOV Quilt a Long

 You do see the light at the end of the tunnel right? A few have already finished and I love them!!

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Week 4 of The Winter 2026 Quilts of Valor Quilt a Long

 By Quiltygirl©

Quilt Size: 60 x 76 inches

 

This week we are making SIX White Stars with a BLUE Background and SIX White Stars with a RED Background; Each star is 8 ½ inches

There are so MANY ways to make these stars – I had fun trying both ways, but this week I am doing them with the Easy Angle and Companion angle. Strips are my friends

If you have not used this method before – Bonnie Hunter has a great Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f6XIpd0Uk 

 

WHITE:

·         Cut12 : 4 ½ inch squares (Center of the star)

·         Cut 48 PAIRS of wings –

o   I cut 4 – 2 ½ inch WOF strips and used my easy angle to cut the pairs

PRETEND THE FABRIC IS WHITE!! I didn’t take Photos

 

 

 

 

 

 BLUE: PRETEND THE PHOTO IS OF BLUE

·         Cut 24 : 2 ½ inch Squares (for the corners)

·         Cut 24 : Geese 

I used 2:  2 ½ inch WOF strips to get the geese – this is also in the same tutorial as above. 

RED:  PRETEND THE PHOTO IS OF RED

·         Cut 24 : 2 ½ inch Squares (for the corners)

·         Cut 24 : Geese  :

If your doing it this way – here are all your pieces:

 

Make 6 Sets for 4 Flying Geese Units: FOR EACH COLOR!!!

 

 

 

Each Flying Goose will measure 2 ½ x 4 ½ inches. I did trim mine – I had very little to trim, but I like to check just to make sure.

Then lay them out like so:

and stitch together:

I stitch them like a 9 patch – into three units, then press and nestle the seams. I try really hard to press to the dark, but What I really want is a Flat unit. So that being said – have fun! Haha

You will be making 6 of these units In BLUE and 6 in RED – for a total of 12 Stars

 

 

You can also make them the 4 at a time flying geese way –

Here are a few other tutorials:

Try making them the Four at a Time Method using Amy SmartsTutorial

Or Quilting JetGirls: Four at a time tutorial 

You are wanting to make the star in an 8 ½ inch unfinished, or 8 in finished size

And you will end up with 6 White Stars with the Blue background and 6 White stars with the RED background

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