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.
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what do you mean Curved flying geese sounds interesting
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Ooooh, how to do this is waaaaay over my head, but for sure it's going to be beautiful! :thumbup:
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I recently saw a picture of this but now can't remember where! It was really stunning.
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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. |
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Nope wrong one. . Try a search for it. It is on the board somewhere.
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Originally Posted by MTS
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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.
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