Moda Blockheads Round 5 (Group 2): Block 17

Welcome to block 17 of Moda Blockheads round 5. This week our block is brought to us by Vanessa Christenson.

You can download the free block pattern here.

Because this week’s block, is similar to the Ohio Star block we had a couple weeks ago, I wanted to make sure to choose fabrics and fabric placement to set it apart from the Ohio Star block. By the way, interesting quilt block fact, did you know that quilt blocks can have different names even if the piecing is the same based on fabric placement? It goes to show how different the same block looks based on fabric choices and fabric placement. If any of you follow Robin Pickens weekly Color Studies in the Moda Blockheads Facebook group, you know how true that is!

You can see this weeks block and the Ohio Star block (bottom right) side by side above. For the block this week, I made the center (on-point) square more prominent. I could have brought even more attention to that center square by choosing a dark fabric instead of the light peach.  I could have also focused on bringing attention to the rectangles framing out the center square to give it a completely different look. But, I didn’t want to lose the star shape…it would have looked something like this:

Of course, Tiggs had to stop by to see what was going on:

He thinks things are shaping up nicely. =)

Have fun piecing your block this week! Corey