Your bro has good taste, great quilt pattern. I'm glad you asked about the geese as I'm learning a lot from the answers here. I put off doing a quilt due to same issue.

I'm with glassquilt, PP is my choice to :)

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:

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

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.

Yes, little bro has good taste, he is always the one to gild the lily....comes up with the 'most' of anything and everything.

Are the rectangles in the pattern cut 3"?
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.

I love this pattern, could you give the source for it?

The pattern gives a couple of sizes so that you could pick the way you wanted to make them. I have to use my whole brain to sort it out.....but I think they are 1 3/4 by 3.

The triangle between the strips of FG is 7.5" square, cut diagonally. ....maybe a 14-15" block??? I have to do one to really know.
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....

The pattern is from the Big book of Scrap Quilts by Oxmoor House, compiled and edited by L. Amanda Owens and Patricia Wilens.