Ohio Star
IntermediateAn eight-point star built from quarter-square points around a solid centre.
Also known as Variable Star
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Open the Design StudioA quilt block is one repeating square of a quilt’s design — a Nine Patch, a Flying Goose, an Ohio Star. Piece the same block dozens of times, set them in a grid, and a quilt appears. These are the classics quilters have passed down for generations, and every one below is built into Quiltler’s Classics tab, ready to drop onto your design.
The showstoppers — points radiating from a centre, built from triangles and geese.
An eight-point star built from quarter-square points around a solid centre.
Also known as Variable Star
A simple, beloved star made from four half-square triangles.
The classic star: four flying-geese points framing a plain centre.
A bold four-point star with flying-goose arms reaching to every edge.
Also known as Star and Geese
A scrappy five-grid star of squares and triangles.
Also known as Four X Star
A sawtooth star with triangle corners and a four-patch centre.
Also known as Weather Vane
Four geese and four corner claws — also Dove in the Window.
Also known as Dove in the Window
A sawtooth star with a smaller diamond star rising from its centre.
Also known as Star within a Star
An Ohio Star wreath with triangle corners and a four-patch heart.
Also known as New York
A friendship star whose centre spins on four blades.
An Ohio Star with triangle corners, the star sitting in a ring of light.
Ohio Star points on four-patch corners, so the star rolls on little chequers.
A sawtooth star whose centre is a pinwheel, vanes turning inside the points.
A sawtooth star with a third fabric in the centre — festive points around a hearth.
A friendship star whose points alternate ribbon and star colour.
Goose Tracks with a diamond in the middle, the star doubled.
Four-patch corners and triangle sides around an hourglass centre.
Eight half-square triangles pinwheeling around a centre square.
Four broken-dishes units, each a little twist, so the arms corkscrew.
A 4×4 star whose points are pairs of half-square triangles, a seam down each point.
An Ohio Star with a third colour in the corners, dawn against night.
A five-grid plus of squares with a triangle in each inner corner.
Ohio Star with triangle corners and a triangle centre — every cell a triangle.
Four large half-square triangles, each pieced of four small ones.
A five-grid of plus and diagonal squares, triangles filling the rest into points.
A five-grid crown: a band of squares with triangle points above and below.
Hourglasses in the corners and half-square triangles filling the rest.
A sawtooth star with triangle corners and a diamond heart.
An Ohio Star whose centre is a four patch, twins sharing one sky.
Half- and quarter-square triangles and flying geese, the engines of movement in a quilt.
The workhorse unit — a square split corner to corner.
Also known as HST, Triangle Square
Four triangles meeting at the centre, the hourglass unit.
Also known as QST, Hourglass, Four Triangle Square
A half-square triangle stretched onto a 2:1 rectangle.
Also known as HRT
A directional triangle: one goose flanked by two sky corners.
Four half-square triangles spinning around the centre.
Triangles turned so the darks tumble like scattered plates.
Eight flying geese wheeling in pairs around the block.
Two triangles forming a bold arrow — stack for zigzag rows.
An optical-illusion block of woven, overlapping cards.
Triangles chasing the opposite way to a pinwheel's sails.
A flock of small triangles filling half the block.
Birds in the Air stepped across a larger grid — a stronger gust.
Four hourglasses turned so the darks pinwheel round the middle.
Triangles crossing the block twice for a strong double X.
Columns of flying geese repeated into a marching flock.
Every cell of a nine patch cut into one bold diagonal triangle.
Four little pinwheels set two by two, all spinning the same way.
Also known as Four Pinwheels
Pinwheels with light and dark swapped — turning blades in a chequer.
Triangles all leaning one way stack into bold diagonal bolts.
Also known as Lightning, Zigzag
Rows of triangles reversing lean to run a saw-toothed ribbon.
Also known as Rick Rack, Streak
Triangles down both diagonals draw a crisp sawtooth X.
Also known as Crosses and Losses
A whole sky of geese, every cell a bird pointing up.
Also known as Wild Geese
A field of quarter-square hourglasses ranked into rows.
A calm centre square ringed by a churning border of triangles.
A large triangle of shore meeting water along a sawtooth edge.
Four quarters spiral around the middle like a pinwheel that kept growing.
Also known as Indiana Puzzle
Two large triangles and two little pinwheels across the other diagonal.
Four sawtooth triangles swirling — every cell a triangle, no rest.
Four little flocks, one in each corner, flying in toward the middle.
A centre square pressed in by eight triangles — also Hen and Chicks.
Also known as Hen and Chicks
Triangle corners and stacked-triangle sides around a solid centre.
Four quarters of triangles and squares turning into large pinwheel blades.
Also known as Star of the West
A four patch with one diagonal cut into triangles.
A nine patch whose diagonal is a staircase of triangles.
A calm centre with triangles spinning around it as if caught in a gust.
Nine diamonds that tile into rolling water — corners, sides and a centre.
Four quarters of a square and two triangles, strings crossing at the centre.
Two large triangles and two little flocks of triangles and squares.
Four flying geese pinwheeling, one in each quarter.
Four geese stepping down the diagonal, a flock on the wing.
Four hourglasses all the same way up.
Two triangles on one diagonal and two quiet squares on the other.
Four large blades of two half-square triangles each.
Plain corners, paired triangles on the sides, a four-patch hub.
Four little flocks all flying the same way, darting across rather than in.
Windmill sails doubled: eight half-square triangles chasing in two rings.
Eight triangles reaching in from the edge of a four-by-four.
Four quarters of an hourglass and two triangles — plenty of points.
Two triangles leaning left over two leaning right.
Pinwheels in opposite corners and hourglasses in the other two.
Two X's of triangles on a four-grid, one offset from the other.
A churn dash whose dashes are hourglasses.
Four large triangles roosting in the corners, four small ones in the middle.
Also known as Buzzard Roost
Contrary Wife with four-patches on the sides.
A square of sawtooth points, each a pair of half-square triangles.
Sixteen triangles all leaning out from the centre.
Four long blades of stacked triangles around a square hub.
Sixteen triangles in a devilish swirl, each row a step of the last.
A kite of two large triangles over a tail of two small ones.
Also known as Spinning Wheel
Two great triangles of smaller ones, a bird's wings spread across the block.
Also known as Wings of a Bird
Squares, rectangles and chains — the friendliest place for a first quilt to begin.
Four squares in a two-by-two grid — the simplest patchwork there is.
Four patches paired with plain squares for a nested chequer.
The classic 3×3 grid and the perfect first patchwork block.
A nine patch cut and re-sewn into a surprising new block.
Simple strips sewn side by side — turn them to weave a fence.
Three rails with a contrasting centre stripe.
Offset rectangles laid like a running-bond brick wall.
Also known as Running Bond
Triangles at the corners and a solid centre — a homespun classic.
Corner triangles and edge bars framing a centre — also Monkey Wrench.
Also known as Monkey Wrench, Hole in the Barn Door
Four clawed paws joined with sashing — bold folk-art charm.
A square with clipped corners to nestle beside pieced blocks.
A square set on point inside another — the economy block.
Also known as Diamond in a Square, Economy Block
A nine patch with triangle corners and its colours turned around.
Two squares and two triangles pinched into the knot of a bow tie.
Four patches and triangles climbing the block like rungs.
A clean cross of five squares — a modern-quilt staple.
Also known as Cross
Bars at right angles so the block reads as woven strips.
Also known as Woven, Roman Square
A four-by-four chequer of light and dark squares.
A five-by-five postage-stamp chequer.
Also known as Postage Stamp
A nine patch whose dark cells are each themselves a nine patch.
Squares corner to corner, tiling an unbroken lattice.
Also known as X Block
The chain's companion, laying a double lattice of colour.
Concentric square rings rippling out from the centre.
Diamonds of light and dark rippling out on point.
A bar of thread top and bottom with the reel showing between.
Also known as Spools
A single square held in a one-patch border.
Also known as Bordered Square
Solid patches in the corners and centre joined by a plain cross.
Three colours stepped along the diagonal in clean bands.
Also known as Diagonal Stripes
A six-by-six chequer — the plainest there is.
Also known as Thirty-Six Patch
A square on point filling the block, its points touching the edges.
Also known as Diamond in a Square
Square rings alternating light and dark — a target squared off.
Also known as Bull's Eye
Four patches and triangles climbing the block on the diagonal.
Also known as Road to California
Four-patch corners, triangle sides, a solid square in the middle.
Four patches in every other cell, triangles on the sides.
Eight four patches around a plain centre — a field of little chequers.
Four-patch corners and a solid centre — the old album block.
Also known as Album, Friendship Album
A plus with arms three patches wide, bolder than the nine-patch Plus.
Four patches at the corners and centre, triangles filling the rest.
Also known as 54-40 or Fight
Four bars pinwheeling around a centre square, each taking one corner.
Also known as Hope of Hartford
A window, a wall and a sill meeting at a Y — the pane recedes.
Squares stepping down the diagonal, each tread finished with a triangle.
Four T's chasing around the centre.
Also known as Capital T
A head of four triangles over a shaft of two bars, pointing up.
Also known as Arrowhead
A snowball whose corners are a quarter of the block, clipped to an octagon.
Also known as Snowball Octagon
Square-in-a-square corners, paired bars on the sides, a plain centre.
Also known as Letter O, Wedding Ring
Four identical quarters of a triangle, a dress square and an accent square.
Also known as Susannah
Nine-patches in the corners and a plus through the middle.
Nine-patches in the corners and the pond, flying geese on the sides.
Four-patches in the corners and the centre, plain sides.
Triangle corners, four-patches on the sides, a plain centre.
Four-patch corners on a five-grid around a signature square.
Also known as Memory
A large centre square with triangle corners, pieced rather than snowballed.
Shoofly with a four-patch popping out of the centre.
A single T of five squares, the capital letter standing alone.
Four-patches in the corners, triangles pointing in, a four-patch tree in the middle.
A five-grid platform: a wide dark bar with four-patch feet.
Roads crossing a five-grid, a square at every junction.
Also known as London Steps
A nine-patch body with triangle wings at the four corners.
A plus of nine-patches on a five-grid.
Five dark squares on a five-grid — the dice face.
Churn Dash with four-patches in the corners instead of triangles.
A plus whose arms flare with triangles, the Maltese points.
Four-patches at the corners and centre of a five-grid, chained by a square.
Also known as Odd Fellows Chain
Four-patches and hourglasses in a nine-patch.
Four-patches in every cell but the centre, which is an hourglass.
A diamond swinging in a nine-patch of squares and triangles.
Also known as Swing-in-the-Center
An X and a plus sharing a five-grid, both marks at once.
Two four-patches joined by a bar of triangles.
Three colours of pavement squares in a five-grid.
Four-patches in the corners, bars on the sides, a solid centre.
A pieced ring of triangles around a centre square — not the curved double ring.
Also known as Wedding Rings
Four-patches and triangles in a checker of units.
A nine-patch of framed squares, each tile held in a little border.
Hourglasses in the corners, four-patches on the sides, a square nose.
Triangles in every cell but the four mid-sides, a castle on air.
A square that is not a square: four triangles making the sides recede.
Four little pluses, one in each quarter of a six-grid.
A five-grid of triangles pinwheeling around a square.
Four-patches in opposite corners and a diamond dug into the middle.
Hourglasses in the corners, triangles on the sides, a square in the mist.
Four-patches in the corners, hourglasses on the sides, a plain centre.
A thick X on a five-grid, the lattice bars two patches wide.
Four-patches and triangles in a nine-patch, cousin of Jacob's Ladder.
Bars and four-patches around a square.
A five-grid flower: a square heart with triangle petals on every side.
A winding path of squares through a five-grid.
A plus one patch wide on a five-grid.
Two large dark tiles on one diagonal, two light on the other.
Eight triangles reaching around a square, hands joined in a ring.
Concentric square frames on a seven-grid.
A leaf body with sky corners and a stem to the corner.
A large triangle of basket, a handle in the sky, and a stand at the base.
Also known as Cake Stand, Flower Basket
Two triangle sails, a trapezoid hull, and a strip of water underneath.
Also known as Sail Boat
A peaked roof, chimney, two windows and a door — the sampler house.
Also known as Little Red Schoolhouse, House
A triangular tree of squares and triangles on a two-patch trunk.
Also known as Christmas Tree
Two triangle petals over a square bloom, with a stem to the bottom.
A body of squares, triangle wings, and a tail — the sampler aeroplane.
Also known as Aeroplane
A denser HST tree than Pine Tree: every branch a triangle, on a two-patch trunk.
Four peak blades fanning from one corner around a square pivot.
Triangle petals over a square bloom, sitting in a trapezoid pot.
A basket of half-square triangles with a handle of two more.
A stem of squares with triangle arms and a bud of two triangles on top.
A leaf of four triangles and a square, stem to the corner.
A peaked barn on a strip of ground — no windows, no door.
Also known as Barn
Four petal triangles around a square, with a stem dropping to one side.
A bowl of squares with the rim cut to triangles, open at the top.
A handful of triangle blooms over two leaves, a sampler posy.
Strips wrapped round a centre, endlessly re-set into secondary patterns across a quilt.
Strips wrapped around a glowing centre — the most versatile block there is.
A Log Cabin variation with logs added in facing pairs.
A Log Cabin whose corners are triangles, so the logs read as spikes.
A Log Cabin whose dark logs are twice the light ones.
A Log Cabin whose hearth sits in the upper left, more rounds on the right and bottom.
Also known as Off-center Log Cabin, Wonky Log Cabin
A Log Cabin whose hearth is a nine patch, the cotton field in the middle.
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Open the Design StudioEvery card above is tagged Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. New to quilting? Start with a Nine Patch, a Four Patch or a Rail Fence — just squares and straight seams. Ready for triangles? Try a Pinwheel or Flying Geese. Want a challenge? A Bear Paw or Card Trick will reward the effort.
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