Originally Posted by Marcia_PA
Thanks for helping me think about this. I think I would put the block together like this photo (cropped and enlarged--not nicely--from the original quilt photo): 8 flying geese blocks facing each other, the star block, and the square in the corner. There seems to be a strip of fabric between the flying geese. I'm sure there are other ways!
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.