Can you substitute flying geese for half square triangles?
08-13-2012, 04:50 AM
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Can you substitute flying geese for half square triangles?
I am done with the top of this quilt and ready to do the border. Part of the border is making half triangles all around. But I thought I'd make flying geese instead and save myself all that cutting and resewing of the squares. They look like flying geese once they are stitched together. Am I wrong? Thanks for any advice.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]355252[/ATTACH]The picture of the border is on the left in the magazine.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]355252[/ATTACH]The picture of the border is on the left in the magazine.
08-13-2012, 05:00 AM
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IMHO I think you could do it. I've even thought about doing it because of the hate affair I have with flying geese. Why not try it on a few blocks and put them together and see how they look? Seems like it would work. You wouldn't have the point with the 1/4" though, I don't think.
08-13-2012, 05:00 AM
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Sure you can substitute if you like the look of the flying geese better than half sq triangles. However, I can't believe that you rather make them, to me they are so much harder to make! I have have used prairie points in place of half sq triangles in the past because they were faster for me to make.
08-13-2012, 05:11 AM
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I found this video on making four flying geese at one time and I tried it this morning and it works!! I don't have the Quilt In A Day tool but it is working...check it out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id3WjzE36NI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id3WjzE36NI
08-13-2012, 05:41 AM
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Thank you. The quilt was on the cover of the Fon's and Porter Sept/Oct 2011 issue. Luckily I had all those fabrics in my stash. Most were fat quarters and I still have left overs! Mine seems to resemble the one in the magazine closely.
08-13-2012, 06:29 AM
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nygal, it's your quilt and you can put whatever you want around the border. Keep this secret - there are no quilt police! Only critics and they can't make the creative work you can because it's your ideas, fabric choices and beautiful work!
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