I second this...I have tried several different ways but I always come back to this....Eleanor is the best. Go to the quilt in a day site and check out her video on how to make the geese. Having her rulers help but I have seen her do it with just a square ruler. After making about an eleven million of them I can make them any size. Just remember on square needs to be an inch and a half larger than the other....check it out you will be a flying geese addict in no time. And see if you can find an old book "all the blocks are geese". It features quilts made just from flying geese blocks.

OHHHH...YES. Eleanor Burns flying geese rulers are the way to go. I bought them after having a disaster with my Christmas quilt from last year. My flying geese made it a disaster. I could not quilt it cause it was so out of wack. It is now a table cloth. I started a horse quilt in May and it has flying geese in it and I used the EB ruler and they turned out EXACT on the money. I will even send in this photo so you can see my progress so far and how I was able to get most everything to match. Now the first two rows are sewn together but the other rows to the right are not. The blocks are sewn in verticle rows only. I am fixing to sew it all together this week. I have one more row to go along the bottom then will do my borders. But you see how the rulers really helped me.

Thanks this may help me as my flying geese never want to "fly"

try this--- ex: cut 12 1/2x61/2 rectangle. cut 2 61/2 " squares. draw diag. line across sqs. place one on rec. sew from center of rec to bottom corner of sq. following line. trim excess.press open. now place 2nd sq. on other side. do same. you will have perfect flying geese unit. works with any size you need.

Hevemi, If you haven't tried the square in a square ruler you are missing out. You will never have to sew triangles together again and you get perfect points. Go to www.squareinasquare.com. Jody Barrows is the creator of this ruler and you will save so much time you won't believe it. I cannot find this ruler in any store but you can order it through her site. If you order the DVD that is all you will need besides the ruler. Believe me, my points never met until I purchased this ruler. Now they do. You will be amazed. Good luck. Rose

Jlong - love the quilt. Very nice job.

Thank you very much!!

I saw this on Saturday on Porter and Fons. they put the first block on and pressed(finger) the seam towards the outer edge. they put the next square on but sewed so that they could see the seam allowance of the first square. thus making sure that they crossed the seam at the right place. made good sense to me. Jan

You say you have used lots of methods. I like the method that Joan Hawley uses on Kaye Wood's show. However, the Eleanor Burns method of making the piece and then squaring it off with her tool sounds like the one that might work for you?