Clever Quarters
03-18-2015, 07:03 PM
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Hello Everyone, I am back for a little while. I am making a quilt out of the book named above. This quilt is for a friend who can't sew anymore, she is a very dear friend of mine. I am really enjoying sewing again. I haven't sewed for months right?
Anyway, this quilt calls for a lot of flying geese. Like 8 to a block. I studied the pattern and decided there is an easier way lol. You know, when you cut a strip and sew a square to each corner and then iron it back and cut off the other half? Well I'm not doing that lol. I went to the Quilters Cache and downloaded one of her pp geese patterns in my size. I cut one off as I only needed two together. I then made four pp pattern on freezer paper in the printer. Just iron the freezer paper lightly to a sheet of printer paper and run it through, Works like magic. This way I could pp four section of geese at a time. Then instead of wasting a lot of fabric as pp will do. I cut squares and cut them in half just a bit bigger than the geese on the paper and it worked easily without much waste at all and went so much quicker and gave perfect points.
First I make a sample out of my scraps to check the pattern (it's the first pic) and then the rest was easy. Also the HST's I just lay one square on top of another, draw a pencil line diagonally and sew 1/4 away on each side and then just trim them to size. Her pick of fabrics are all florals and roses, lots of lights.
Anyway, this quilt calls for a lot of flying geese. Like 8 to a block. I studied the pattern and decided there is an easier way lol. You know, when you cut a strip and sew a square to each corner and then iron it back and cut off the other half? Well I'm not doing that lol. I went to the Quilters Cache and downloaded one of her pp geese patterns in my size. I cut one off as I only needed two together. I then made four pp pattern on freezer paper in the printer. Just iron the freezer paper lightly to a sheet of printer paper and run it through, Works like magic. This way I could pp four section of geese at a time. Then instead of wasting a lot of fabric as pp will do. I cut squares and cut them in half just a bit bigger than the geese on the paper and it worked easily without much waste at all and went so much quicker and gave perfect points.
First I make a sample out of my scraps to check the pattern (it's the first pic) and then the rest was easy. Also the HST's I just lay one square on top of another, draw a pencil line diagonally and sew 1/4 away on each side and then just trim them to size. Her pick of fabrics are all florals and roses, lots of lights.
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