HST's are actually my favorite! I hope I can catch up on these BOM's soon! Miss doing them.

Leslee,
Paper piecing half square triangles and flying geese would put me into a panic. I can never get the angles going in the right direction and then when they finally work, I find that the fabric piece I have just attached is too small for the area I am trying to cover. When paper piecing, I imitate a frog at least 60% of the time that I am sewing the block. :cry:

I think it is all a mind set. I would rather practice these two types of patches regular piecing than with paper piecing.

Tell you what, Leslee. You try to do this with regular piecing and I will do it paper piecing, if I can get the pattern to print out at 12 inches. :) :)

Patrice, can you help me out with that?

Connie

If you sew a second seam outside the first flying geese seam and cut between them, you have tiny HSTs to use in a later project (like a scrap quilt) and they are already sewed!

I press my squares on the diagonal so I have line to sew down when making HSTs and these corner triangles that make Flying Geese. It is not so hard, except that I have to take the 1/4 inch foot off!

A long time ago, who knows when, someone posted a 'fast flying geese' site.

http://members.shaw.ca/BeverlysQuiltingPage/ffg.htm

I followed this method and it does make them so much easier!

I find that if you are careful in the preparations those patches go together easily. It's when we try to go fast or cut corners that we get into trouble. I like the idea of pressing the square on the diagonal to get it accurate. Then if you draw a scant 1/4 inch line on each side of that crease and sew on the line you draw, the half square triangles come out correct.

Patience and preparation is the key. :)

Connie

12-inch Paper Piecing, as requested :P

Thanks for the pattern Patrice. Now I have to tackle this as a foundation pieced pattern. Here is where it gets scary for me. But I will try.

Connie

Can anyone join in on this at anytime?

Of course you may join in. We just do these for fun. If you see one that you want to do go ahead and do it and don't forget to post a pic. We post these twice a month on the first and fiftenth. I'm making the ones that I like and am going to put them with my bday blocks to make a sampler quilt. You can access all of the patterns so far if you go to the home page and click on BOM.