charmednmissouri

suern3: They are the cornerstones you will put into the sashing for the blocks.

suern3

Thanks for your response. If I just keep plugging away I will probably see that. And thanks to Joe's Mom and Iceblossom ,too, for info.

joe'smom

I reviewed a youtube video of the Wing Clipper and it doesn't look like that will work for the tri-color geese, unless you want to throw away half of them (because half will turn out with the colors on the wrong side). I never had good results sewing HSTs to QSTs until this year, but found that with a scanter seam, I was able to get usable geese and I actually ended up enjoying the process. I guess you will have to fall back on the drawing line method if you don't want to work with the bias edge. It's definitely worth the trouble in the end!

I had to stop working on my half blocks today because I ran out of leader/ender pieces and had to stop and press and pin to get the next batch ready.

Iceblossom

I'm always happier when I have a plan instead of a day of decisions. So today I got the four corners done along with the additional/remade 4-patches. I was able to pull out some matching fabric and make the couple additional pieces needed to turn one cut set into 4 different matching corners. It's often a joke/comment I make to myself even in a charm quilt where all pieces are different, the four corners are the same holding everything in.

I'm going to start out by only making 4 full blocks out of the remainders for the setting units. I'm watching the yellows and discarding the lighter ones that were giving me the most problems, I will most likely need to cut a few more but right now I still have plenty. Because of the diagonal seam I will get by cutting the blocks, I'd rather avoid that by making just the setting triangle units as Bonnie designed. I'm hoping I can pull out a few of my scraps and turn each block/set into two triangles (that's why I made the extra 4-patches). For some reason, it doesn't bother me as much to not use an entire set rather than have two half sets of pieces left...

Even though I'm improving some of my issues, I still chose badly with my Parakeet/Yellows and I'm going to go ahead with the minor change of using my "Parakeet" in the sashing strips instead of Neutral.

Finally -- I've got the last of the dark hand dyes stabilized and in the dryer now! So still work ahead of me tonight (ironing, ugh). And then just a couple more hours to stabilize the last little batch and it is all done, quite the sizable stack at that!

Tomorrow at small group I will need something to do -- so I'm going to start pinning the HST units together for the border. Perfect sort of task for sitting around a table and chatting while working. The way it is designed the saw teeth do go in a certain way. I'm going to be pinning them together as one red/one blue, then putting those into squares and so on and so on. It will be a big motivator to work on the border too, because I'll be using all my pins!

audsgirl

Linda, your blocks are so cute! Great job.

Leslie

Krisb

IceBlossom, I am at the same point you are, just digesting what those blocks really look like. I know I need one more to make one more full block to do an in point layout, but just can’t bring myself to do it. My 12 full blocks are together in units, and all matched up.

Will start on the setting triangles and corners tomorrow, but will likely stop and digest some more. Hoping to fund a way to use the pieces from those, plus a few more that I can cut, to stretch pieces for 8 blocks into 10 half blocks and 1 more full blocks. Am currently thinking of using the left FG as border corners, and doing the pinwheel borders. The 2 HST borders don’t do much for me. Or maybe make 4 4x4 QST or maybe.....

Queenbarbiej

I took the hst squares and turned them into a stripe border. I will post a picture this weekend. My quilt went in a different direction than what Bonnie showed.

SusieQOH

I have almost half my blocks assembled but to be honest I'm not wild about them. Not really sure why.
They are going together nicely but they lack a wow factor. Maybe I'll feel differently down the road.
I think I'm struggling with the excessive scrappyness of it?
Will post more pics soon.

origamigoldfish

I am still plugging away at my individual blocks, and my story is the same as everyone else. I am a little disappointed but my color combinations in the individual blocks, but I do actually like the effect as I add more and more blocks to my file. I am still happy with the experience and will do it again next year. I think right now i'm just dealing with a little burnout of looking at the same fabrics over and over for so long. I love the finished project, I'm just a little shaky on my journey there. I'm nervous my version of the finished project will be different enough to lose what I loved about Bonnie's.

I am loving seeing everybody's blocks and layouts! Keep up the good work!

maminstl

Well, I think I have all my units done, so now time to get them organized and put together a block. Based on all the issues I had with my flying geese, I have renamed my quilt "Pointless". I have kind of been dragging my heels and finding other projects that I have to do first