gmcsewer

Any ideas how to add the curved flying gees to the border of my faceted jewel quilt? I have thought of continuing the paper piecing to add the curved pieces, or maybe I should precut them, similar to drunkard's pathway. Or just bind the edges of the flying geese and stitch them on a plain piece of fabric.

sewwhat85

what do you mean Curved flying geese sounds interesting

Quilter7x

Ooooh, how to do this is waaaaay over my head, but for sure it's going to be beautiful! :thumbup:

deanneellen

I recently saw a picture of this but now can't remember where! It was really stunning.

MTS

How I'd do it:

Paper piece the curved flying geese piece.

and then applique it to the border -you can remove the excess border fabric underneath after.

The applique can be done many different ways -
hand stitch it applique it down
machine stitch it down with a small zigzag - after you've turned the seam under.

??? -
is the sky of the geese the same color as the border background fabric?

If it's the same, depending on the width of the border and FG, I might do it a bit differently.

I just don't really like all those seams on the border pieces.

deanneellen

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-43812-1.html

See if this comes up for you.

deanneellen

Nope wrong one. . Try a search for it. It is on the board somewhere.

MTS

You have an extra 'l' in the URL

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-43812-1.htm

Sewfine

Why that is awesome. Beautiful.

gmcsewer

I wanted to make them in curved sections. The difficulty is in making them so they come out the length I need. Sides are 57" and length is 84". The design I found is 9" from end to end. I have found a magazine article in the American Quilt Guild magazine where you free form draw a curve and then divide into sections. Mark the half way point between the sides of the curve and make each flying geese in its section. I have done this and it looks like it is going to work. Have pictures to post soon.