A Favourite Colour Combination
I dearly love pink and brown in antique quilts, and I'm loving putting together kits for more of these Flying Geese blocks. I will have to find out if they have a name of their own. I worked diligently on cutting what I needed for each block, and I'm up to 23 kits now. I cut a whole block out of each fabric that I picked, and I intend to mix up the pieces as I make each block. There are plenty of leftovers if I want to repeat a fabric in a certain area.
Of course, seeing as I have 20 blocks on the design wall now, I have enough for 43 blocks, so once again I have overcut. It allows me to discard a less than ideal block, so I don't mind that.
Such a lovely little pile of trimmings.
I solved the mystery of my missing points. I was taking too scant a seam allowance as I built the arms of the cross, especially between the Flying Geese and the corner square. That made each cross piece longer than it should have been, so the big outside triangle wasn't able to cover the piece at the edge.
I'm glad I worked that out, now I can go ahead and sew the rest of the blocks and keep an eye on my seams so they don't cause problems down the track.
Hot hot hot weather, tomorrow I'll be in the AC sewing together a skirt and maybe getting round to cutting out my blue shirt. I'm looking forward to some sewing that isn't quite so exact.
3 comments:
They are very pretty blocks. I may have to try one. Thank you for sharing.
It was in the 40's here today. The snow is all gone, as we had a lot of rain last night.
Sam / Gypsy Quilter
If you don't mind please share the name of this block so that I can look up the assembly of it. I am trying to figure it out from the picture and not getting anywhere. It is very interesting and will make a pretty quilt. Love reading your blog and this is my first time commenting.
Hello -- the block is #2901 in Brackman's Encyclopedia of Quilt Patterns. Depending on the colorway it's Northumberland Star, Eight Pointed Star, or Double T. (I first encountered it as Northumberland Star and recall making it for a block swap many years ago.)
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