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This week Jenny is whipping up an Easy Carpenters Star using big half square triangles. FREE Quilt Pattern. Double Carpenter S Wheel Barn Quilt Patterns Quilt Patterns Quilts Recently I made a large Tree Skirt and had several people on Instagram ask for some info so I decided to write up a quick tutorial. Free carpenter star quilt pattern . Star quilt patterns are the quintessential patchwork quilt designs. In the olden days laundry was scrubbed on washboards hand-mixed bread was baked in finicky wood-burning stoves and the Carpenters Star was stitched with labor intensive y-seams. The Carpenters Wheel quilt block has been around for a long time and is also known by a few other names Star of Bethlehem and Carpenters StarMost of the time this block is made using squares and diamonds but I have chosen to make this pattern using half square triangle sets rather than the diamonds to bypass distortion of the bias edges from the frequent handling and also this. The overall desig...