Need Math Help - Flying Geese
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Need Math Help - Flying Geese
What is the 'equation' used to make Flying Geese? There has to be a way to figure out what size square to put with a strip?
I will be so appreciative of help!
Terry
I will be so appreciative of help!
Terry
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Thanks Nancy! A local quilt shop owner shared these directions with me once, and I loved them. Then I misplaced the directions and really appreciate the link. Best flying geese I ever made came by doing them with these directions.
Kat
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That is my favorite method as well. My current avatar has over 200 geese made that way. One thing that I will point out is that my smaller squares were about 1/4" larger that needed. That allowed me to square the top of the geese up perfectly and I was able to make sure that the point was exactly at the 1/4" seam line - although I am careful, at over 200 to make I did make some that needed some tlc.
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Geese are always twice as wide as they are tall. So if you know the finished width you want, then your strip is that wide plus 1/2". And the height is half of the finished width, plus 1/2. The squares to make the "sky" are the same size as the height of the strip.
So, for example, if your finished strip is 4" wide, then you have
strip - 4.5" x 2.5" (to finish at 4x2)
squares - 2.5" (2 of them)
So, for example, if your finished strip is 4" wide, then you have
strip - 4.5" x 2.5" (to finish at 4x2)
squares - 2.5" (2 of them)
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