From Sawtooth Star to Ohio Star- making your quilt blocks on point

If you are making the Sawtooth Star Pattern in large throw (12 blocks), here is a fun little twist if you’d prefer your stars on point.

A quick disclaimer- it does involve cutting some of your blocks in half and even one into quarters and if you are a true quilt perfectionist or part of the quilt police brigade, you probably don’t want to follow these instructions as it’s not a perfect way of making a quilt- you lose 1/4” seam allowance around the border so your stars are slightly more covered by the binding than they would otherwise be. But because the cut pieces are only around the border, I think you’ll agree you don’t really notice and you end up with a lovely, albeit slightly different quilt.

The final dimensions of this quilt are 58” x 87” - it’s long and skinny but actually the perfect size for going lengthwise on a queen or king bed :-)

This tutorial assumes you have made each of your quilt blocks but haven’t sewn any together.

Start by setting aside 8 quilt blocks. These will be left whole.

With your remaining 4 blocks, you are going to cut 3 blocks directly down the middle on a diagonal as follows (for the rest of this tutorial, these will be referred to as half blocks):