Having given a tutorial for how to make no-waste flying geese, I've been asked what I do with all the geese I make this way.
Well, lately I've been making geese for quilt me and some friends are making as a block exchange project. My two blocks in the exchange are both comprised of flying geese. The first one is just rows of little 1x2 inch geese. I had to make 6 of the blocks, with 18 geese in each block, that means I had to make 108 geese to make this one block six times:
The second set of geese were a little larger to make a flying dutchman block, one of my favorite blocks of all time:
I think maybe I should have had the green and purple be a little further apart in value, because they both look almost black in the photo, but really, the purple geese form a pinwheel int he center and the other geese are dark green. As with the other one, I had to make 6 blocks, so a lot of geese between the two.
Anyway - that's what I've done with the most recent sets of geese that I've made, all using the no-waste method I wrote a tutorial for in my last post.
You can see the whole quilt 'Ryokan' at http://thimblecreek.com/details.php?prodId=2000&category=240&secondary=114&keywords= - it is a charming quilt. It's also in issues 85 and 86 of Quiltmania Magazine, which is where I first found it.
I do want to clarify something - I want to make it clear that I didn't invent that method, I was merely passing it along to anyone who hadn't seen it before, or trying to make it easy to do for someone who might have been confused by a previous tutorial. I'm not sure any one person can claim the method as their own invention. It is simply 'out there' in the world of quilting and I am just one more person making sure the word gets spread.
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Picasso
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What a great project - combining the FG in a little house block. This must be fun to look at on your design wall.
ReplyDeleteHi! Found your blog through another blog I follow. Love the house blocks, and the flying geese tutorial is great. I am your new follower. Nice to *meet* you.
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