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For a pattern like the one in the picture, I'd probably paper-piece the FG in strips.
All the above methods are great and definitely serve a purpose, but you still have to sew individual FG together, without losing any points and keeping the run of geese straight.
I'd prefer to pp them - takes all the wonkiness out of the process.
YMMV. ;-)
eta: oops, as mentioned above :mrgreen:
All the above methods are great and definitely serve a purpose, but you still have to sew individual FG together, without losing any points and keeping the run of geese straight.
I'd prefer to pp them - takes all the wonkiness out of the process.
YMMV. ;-)
eta: oops, as mentioned above :mrgreen:
#14
Beautiful pattern! :)
Eleanor Burns rulers/method is my favorite way of making a lot of flying geese, but when they're so small, I'd rather go with paper piecing.
Here's a page with different sizes of paper pieced rows. You can edit them in Photoshop Elements to make the rows as long or short as you need them to be and to make the blocks the exact size that you want.
http://www.quilterscache.com/B/Blank...latesPage.html
Eleanor Burns rulers/method is my favorite way of making a lot of flying geese, but when they're so small, I'd rather go with paper piecing.
Here's a page with different sizes of paper pieced rows. You can edit them in Photoshop Elements to make the rows as long or short as you need them to be and to make the blocks the exact size that you want.
http://www.quilterscache.com/B/Blank...latesPage.html
Flying geese 1½ x 3/4" adapted from Quilters' Cache - ignore the numbering at the bottom of the strip where I pasted one strip onto the other to make it long enough. :)
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Two miniature quilts - I think the top one used the 1½"x3/4" blocks
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Wow!! Thanks for all the help. It may be that PP is the way to go. Looking like it anyway. I am confused as to the size of the FG. I will get it, just takes me a while.
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Yes, little bro has good taste, he is always the one to gild the lily....comes up with the 'most' of anything and everything.
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Originally Posted by thenonnielady
decided on starts with: cut 1539 (1 3/4") squares.
Originally Posted by thenonnielady
I am confused as to the size of the FG. I will get it, just takes me a while.
And are the finished blocks around 7" square (4 smaller blocks make up the big X block)?
Looks like the size of the FG would be 1.25" x 2.5" FINISHED (1.75" x 3" UNFINISHED) - does that agree with the pattern?
Once you get all the FG strips done, it's really a breeze to put together.
The pp would be the most time consuming part.
You can PP in strips of 4FG or 8FG depending on the length of your foundation paper. I use vellum, so I'd use the larger size to do the strips in one shot - for both the blocks and the sashing.
If you don't have access to longer sheets, than you can do them in sets of 4 FG, and only have to attach them with the one seam. Not so bad.
It's a great looking pattern - and really has a lot of possibilities depending on the fabric choices.
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Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by thenonnielady
decided on starts with: cut 1539 (1 3/4") squares.
Originally Posted by thenonnielady
I am confused as to the size of the FG. I will get it, just takes me a while.
And are the finished blocks around 7" square (4 smaller blocks make up the big X block)?
Looks like the size of the FG would be 1.25" x 2.5" FINISHED (1.75" x 3" UNFINISHED) - does that agree with the pattern?
Once you get all the FG strips done, it's really a breeze to put together.
The pp would be the most time consuming part.
You can PP in strips of 4FG or 8FG depending on the length of your foundation paper. I use vellum, so I'd use the larger size to do the strips in one shot - for both the blocks and the sashing.
If you don't have access to longer sheets, than you can do them in sets of 4 FG, and only have to attach them with the one seam. Not so bad.
It's a great looking pattern - and really has a lot of possibilities depending on the fabric choices.
They want brown, so I am thinking perhaps a cream on white batik with assorted brown 'sky' portions of the geese (goose?). Perhaps a little tan in the batik. Maybe dark, dark brown blender for the star. There is almost 11 yards of background fabric....
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