Showing posts with label one-seam flying geese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one-seam flying geese. Show all posts

Monday, December 20, 2010

Gooseflower scrap quilt progress

My BOM quilt using 2 BOMs and my flying geese is coming along nicely. Here is a picture of the center of the quilt.
BOM 1, won in July at guild, is the 6 large flowers, one purple, one yellow, and 4 in pink/red.
BOM 2, also from July, are not currently shown. They will become the edging.
The rest of the blocks you see are my flying geese from the swap we did at guild this year.
I've finally decided on the layout of the flowers en pointe, the geese surrounding them, and four pair of geese as accent points through the center of the quilt. Empty space in the center will be neutral scraps, and the rest of the quilt will come from the other BOMs.
Now off to do my last tweaking. I still want to look at the quilt several times and rearrange geese so I cannot see any large groups of color or patterns. Then I will create "rows" diagonally so I can sew them in a sensible fashion.
How do you like the name Gooseflower quilt? I kinda like it.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Finished - Liebe Pillow

In my one-seam flying geese haze, I dreamed up a simple pillow that uses 9 flying geese. Three geese make a heart shape, and the other 6 accent it.
Add to that an adorable woven ribbon which says "Mein Engel - Dir gehört mein Herz" or "my angel, my heart belongs to you" and a little kitschy quilting of hearts and the word Liebe, and there you have it - and easy and fast project. Ribbon is from Acufactum.
I'll post a pattern as soon as I've cleaned up my design notes.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

2471 Geese - that's a large flock (or skein, apparently)

So our guild finished the flying geese challenge with 2471 geese - just like I expected, more than 2000 geese. Awesome!

So what do you call that many geese? On the ground, like the geese they are growing for German Christmas dinners, it's a gaggle of geese.
In the air, it's your choice of
  • flock of geese
  • skein of geese
Why English uses the same word for a group of flying geese that it uses for a ball of yarn is beyond me.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

What do 1600 Flying geese look like?

More or less like this:

Our guild has been collecting geese as a block swap for three months, and this month we will distribute to all of the participants. It's a "you take as many as you bring" project. We'll be sorting the geese by pattern type, and the participants have a limited ability to request which geese they get.
The guild has been buying the Benartex Preview Packs, but some members have had a hard time cutting into these charm squares, so this project was designed to give them a motivation to do so.
For the exchange, a person can select either a specific Benartex line, or just any Benartex, or scrappy. If we don't have enough geese to fill the specific requests, the person gets the rest in scrappy geese.
I can't wait - just one more week. I've put in about 150 geese, and I have plans for these little birdies. I've got a scrappy quilt just waiting to have geese as sashing.