PWinston

This is how I envisioned it when I diagrammed the block - -just flip my first drawing over and it will be in the same alignment as your picture. The only problem is that the flying geese blocks are not typical flying geese. It is my belief that flying geese dimensions are typically that the height is 1/2 the width (i.e. 1 1/2" x 3", 2" x 4", 3" x 6"). The geese dimensions in this pattern do not meet that standard criteria. Thus, my reason for paper piecing those units since I do not know how to traditionally piece non-conforming geese.

Marcia_PA

Okay, I didn't realize that about the geese! Back to the drawing board!

pocoellie

Card Trick isn't hard to make into a paper pieced pattern, just get a piece of graph paper and go for it.

grammatjr

Funny, someone else did it the same time as I did. Here is what I came up with.

They can all be half square triangles.

Then a border around the star, the border is about half the width of the small sashin on the outside border.

And small sashing in center of outside geese border.

fabric whisperer

I just studied this area of snippet in PhotoShop on my Mac, and enhanced a screenshot... I am not seeing the additional border... so could they have done a 2-pc-fabric for the part of the HST where it looks like there is a small gap between the little triangles?

PWinston

Duhhh!!! I was limiting my thinking on this. The block is the one that you centered in on and as I had pictured in my rudimentary sketch except that I did not draw the correct size flying geese for the non-star portion of the block. The flying geese in the "sashing" or non-star portion of the block are 1 3/4" x 3 1/2" (that is assuming an 8" star). The finished block would be 11 1/2" square. If you make it this way, you just set the blocks on point, add the setting triangles and you've got it finished.

You can make it the way others have shown it, however, they do not take into consideration the extra row of flying geese on the outside blocks. If you make it that way, you would have to add flying geese to the setting triangles.

OK, this has worn me out. I'm happy with our rendition of the block.

Marcia_PA

That makes it very clear--thank you!

Marcia_PA

You quilters are an awesome group of people! Thank you so much for working on this problem :D

grammatjr

It took me awhile to figure out what you meant about the setting triangles. Now I get it - thanks for showing me the flaw in my quick pattern.

So, I tried just doing the one side & bottom, then making it into an entire quilt, and came up with the same problem!

Finally I found if we did a setting triangle, it works. We would then need make corner setting triangles with 2 sets of the side geese.

Marcia_PA

Wow! That's fantastic, grammatjr! You really put your thinking cap on. I appreciate it. I will save this information and really want to try this pattern.