Show me your Geese!!
08-09-2011, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by doowopddbop
I love making flying geese units, but have only used them in certain blocks in sampler quilts (Sawtooth Star, Dutchman's Puzzle). I would love to see all the ways you have used flying geese. Oh, and that's another question! Is one unit a flying goose??
08-09-2011, 02:23 PM
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Here is a (poor) pic of a quilt the sample-maker did for my shop years ago. She was a fairly new quilter, learning from me as she went, and if you notice the tips of the points, you can see that she failed to check with me before sending into the longarmer's room!!
Still, we wrote a pattern for it and sold many kits from this sample. She made the geese the same way you would any snowballed rectangle, but the rectangle was made of strips. The actual colors of the Fossil Fern fabrics are more vibrant than the old photo shows.
When I closed the shop and sold many of the quilts, this is one I refused $800 for and kept for myself. It hangs on the wall behind my bed.
Jan in VA
Still, we wrote a pattern for it and sold many kits from this sample. She made the geese the same way you would any snowballed rectangle, but the rectangle was made of strips. The actual colors of the Fossil Fern fabrics are more vibrant than the old photo shows.
When I closed the shop and sold many of the quilts, this is one I refused $800 for and kept for myself. It hangs on the wall behind my bed.
Jan in VA
We named it Yoders Going to Yamaica
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08-09-2011, 02:50 PM
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This is one with just a few geese, I love making them too! Wish I had a pic of the table topper I gave my daughter! It has 184 geese units on diagonal, took me months to make, but its very cute! It's a fall one.
QITNY June Swap I made for emc1118
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08-09-2011, 11:32 PM
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Thank you for your links.
I've never tried the method in the second one before and the tutorial has definitely got me wanting to give it a go. For my next quilt, this is the one I'll be looking at.
I'm making a flying geese quilt from all my fabric and scraps that have some blue in them (finished the geese, will take a photo and try to upload) and I did seem to waste so much fabric... Little bits here and there, but it was adding up to a bit of a pile.
Again, thank you.
Joanne
I've never tried the method in the second one before and the tutorial has definitely got me wanting to give it a go. For my next quilt, this is the one I'll be looking at.
I'm making a flying geese quilt from all my fabric and scraps that have some blue in them (finished the geese, will take a photo and try to upload) and I did seem to waste so much fabric... Little bits here and there, but it was adding up to a bit of a pile.
Again, thank you.
Joanne
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