Ohio Star block

This year my quilt guild is doing a simple sampler quilt for our monthly project.  In January we were given instructions for making an Ohio Star block - a very traditional block.  I wasn't even planning to make the block, because I wasn't sure that I wanted to make the quilt, which will ultimately consist of nine 12-inch blocks. 

However, a nearby quilt guild is planning a National Quilters Day Out project for making Quilts of Valor, and quilters are asked to come by and make, or make ahead and donate, red, white and blue star blocks.  So I decided to go ahead and make the Ohio Star block, but do it in red, white and blue fabrics so that I could donate it to the Quilt of Valor project.