Star into a square?

[jingles96]

Anybody have any ideas on how to turn a five pointed star into a square?

 

I've pledged myself to making two 12 in squares for Heart Made Blessings Operation Purple Heart. I thought it would be neat to do blue and white squares. So I did up the first four rounds of Beth's Little Star Afghan and now I'm stumped at how to fill in around the star so that it will be a square. I've fiddled with a couple of different ideas, but it comes down to this - the star has five sides and a square has four. (Duh!)

 

Any ideas? Or was this a pipe dream to begin with?

 

I'm off to bed, it's 3am here.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Empress Busy Bee]

Off hand I remembered this one.

You can either do it and leave off the striping, or try to figure it out and do the fill in part on what you have done already.

 

members.aol.com/elegantcr...nhero.html

[Stitchinpick]

Look at this web page, it might help with the star solution.

 

www.angelfire.com/home/bo...tarsq.html

 

 

 

Good luck.

 

Stitchinpick

[jingles96]

Thanks EmpressBusyBee & Stitchinpick. Both of those involve stitching a star onto the square. I was hoping to figure out some way to fill in the negative space around the star to make it a square.

 

Thanks for the help though!

[Empress Busy Bee]

Well shoot, I thought for sure that was not a two piece one.

I'll keep an eye out for you though.

[jingles96]

I just found this square pattern which does something similar to what I was thinking of:

Lone Star Square

[Chatty]

That's a cool pattern but I think I'd like it better done in solid colors, the varigated makes it harder to see the star properly.