webGurl old stars 1 - Two years ago, when I was just trying to learn to quilt, I received 33 quilt blocks made by my husband's grandmother in the 40s-50s. I decided the blocks would be shared equally between my husband's 3 sisters. This is the first of the quilts.. The original blocks were all hand-appliqued;I appliqued the blocks to clean muslin my machine, leaving the old muslin behind the 10-point stars to provide extra strength.