This star block is built with smaller Flying Geese units. From these units, you pick up and knit the corner squares and centre square. Then after a bit of seaming, you’ve got your finished block! No short rows in this one.

There is also an optional border which is knit directly onto your finished block.

Any Heavy Fingering or sport weight yarn. This project is meant to work with scraps, leftovers or mini skeins.

My blanket includes plump fingering weight mini skeins, locally sourced and spun fingering weight mini skeins by Kalea the
Luddite, natural sheep shades of Briggs and Little Sport, 1-ply fingering from Custom Woolen Mills, some stray balls of Rauma
Finull/PT 2, leftover Patons Kroy Sock yarn, Tukuwool fingering, Jamieson’s and Smith 2-ply jumper weight and Mezcla leftovers by Emtothethird Yarn Co.

I prefer working with non-superwash wool, but I also advocate that you use what you’ve got!

Yarn amounts for each block:
Working the star points in one colour takes about 12g (Colour A) (42m / 46 yards) the center section also takes about 9g
(Colour C) (32m / 34 yards) and the background colour uses about 13g (Colour B) (46m / 50 yards)

You should be able to make solid coloured star blocks with about 16g (56m / 61 yards) of one colour with a second background
colour. I personally like the scrappy look that uses more colours.

The optional edge borders take about 3g per side (Colour D) (11m / 12 yards) and budget 1.5g per corner post (Colour E) (6m / 6
yards). Each block with 2 edge borders and one corner post uses about 38g of yarn.

It’s up to you how you want to arrange the colours. You could also make a super scrappy version with different colours in each of the
star points.

Yes, there are some seams! I’ve tried to develop this block that minimizes seaming and crazy knitting acrobatics, without sacrificing the look of the overall knitted quilt block.

Match up your corners with some removable stitch markers or safety pins and use some simple whipstitch to put your blocks
together!