Design Wall Monday - Checkered Stars

What is on your design wall this morning?  Mine holds multiple projects as always.  Starry Checkers - or Checkered Stars - was the PIG I selected in June to work on, but I never got beyond gathering the fabrics for this one.  The pattern and 2 charm packs were part of a Sew Sampler box from the Fat Quarter Shop.  I pulled a grey for the star points and a white-on-white for the background early in June, but never started working on it so it's my PIG for July too.

And I need to go on record saying the pattern is wonderful but the name just doesn't work for me.  My apologies to the pattern designer.  Luckily a strange name doesn't detract from how well written the pattern is.  Each block is a simple combination of 2 each half-square triangles and 9-patch units.  Each set of 4 blocks fit together to make a big star with grey points and a checkered center (and corners).  

There are 36 of these blocks in the wall hanging or baby quilt size project.  I have 4 of the blocks made so far, but all of the white and grey pieces are cut and ready to go.  I'll keep cutting the charm squares for the 9-patch units as I need more.  I figure I'm less likely to lose any 1.5" square that way.  

I'm linking up to Design Wall Monday today: 
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