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Practicing using my new BlockBase+ program I thought I'd see what I could find about this pattern.
Here it is on a page of Eight Pointed Stars: Other Stars on the top row. These are rather miscellaneous stars that look complicated to piece. But stitchers stitched them.
Recently quilted top, originally pieced probably 1940-1960.
New Star quilt & Wishing Star from Workbasket magazine
& Star of St. Louis from Nancy Cabot.
I have several examples in the picture files
Solid colors harder to date than prints but that pastel green (Nile Green)
looks 1930-1950.
So-- I am looking at these examples and I note that three of my four vintage are not really pieced into blocks.
Late 20th century
The block---white here---is plain. The piecing is in the sashing.
A way to make a star block that is old-fashion and complicated.
This is easier.
I went back to the source Workbasket magazine. And found it in the AntiqueQuiltPatternLibrary's index to Workbasket patterns as Wishing Star
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/wbquilt.htm
Published November, 1940, which is a help in dating the quilts above. Workbasket tells you to piece it with plain white blocks (notice piece A & E above.)
That little magazine was a very popular source for needleworkers in the mid-20th-century: Cheap and offering some innovative ideas.
But I wouldn't follow their advice on piecing this block.
I would use the "Print" button in BlockBase+. First I'd see what
could be rotary cut---triangles & squares along the outside edge.
I saved the first block picture page into Photoshop
and added extra information.
And there you have a 10" pattern for a Wishing Star.
Speaking of Wishing I wish I could have found the source for Star of St. Louis from the Chicago Tribune's Nancy Cabot column but I did not. Some of those Nancy Cabot attributions were taken from other historians' indexes of the 1960s and those were not as accurate as I'd hope.
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