What Am I Doing Wrong?
#11
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I have made a lot of flying geese blocks and I use the Eleanor Burns templates. They come out very accurate every time and hardly any waste. Sounds like you are getting very good after a few practice ones
#13
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You will have less frustration if you use one of the methods to making flying geese already mentioned above. The Eleanor Burns flying geese ruler works great (there a large and small E. Burns ruler, each makes several sizes of flying geese), the four at a time method works great, too.
#15
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https://www.patchpieces.com/files/flyinggeese.pdf
This is the easy way to make 4 at a time. Where it says to cut pieces B, make sure you do cut by adding 7/8" and not one inch.
This is the easy way to make 4 at a time. Where it says to cut pieces B, make sure you do cut by adding 7/8" and not one inch.
#18
A wonderful 3-dimensional flying geese is so simple to make that I rarely make the original anymore...but that's just my preference. Take two 2" squares and one 2x3 1/2 " rectangle (folded in half width-wise). Sandwich the 3 fabric cuts with the raw edges at the top and the right hand lined up. Stitch 1/4" seam down right side. (Fold of the rectangle is facing downward inside the sandwich.) Open the sandwich and spread the center to a point. Done! It is always straight without fighting with the bias edges. Of course, you can adjust the size of the geese to whatever size you need.
#19
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Location: Madison, WI
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Another vote here for the Deb Tucker Wing Clipper ruler method. Unfortunately, I made a quilt years ago that had sixteen flying geese per block, and about 42 blocks.. I got really good at the old fashioned method rectangle-and-two-squares method, but I think I said “bad words” whenever I thought about flying geese for a while!
Last edited by QuiltnNan; 09-07-2019 at 03:45 PM. Reason: shouting/all caps
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