Flying Geese Pattern: a start on Starlight Geese

 Good day and welcome to my blog!

It's a beautiful day in the American Midwest.  I'd like to share with you what I've been working on for the last few days.  

I think I'm on a roll with flying geese units.  I created some blocks in the Cups and Saucers pattern, from the Patchwork Square website.  I blogged about them previously.  Well the finished blocks are in a pile in my sewing room, as I continue forward making more flying geese units for this pattern:

A little out of focus, but you can find the Patchwork Square pattern here.  I am switching the values of the pieces:  Geese units are in feedsack fabrics, background is Kona Snow.

Here is what I have so far:

Laid out on my design floor, so that is my carpet in between the blocks.  I am using these instructions for no-waste flying geese, making 4 at a time:

https://www.patchpieces.com/files/flyinggeese.pdf

This is fun, but as each block finishes at 10 inches square, it will take a while to get up to a reasonable quilt size.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, (She featured my last project this week - thank you!), Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Winter Solstice top is done

Good day and welcome to my blog.  It's a warm day in the American Midwest, with a promise of thunderstorms later in the day. 

I detailed in a previous post how I had started a complex (for me) quilt pattern called Winter Solstice.  I am happy to report that the top is done:

Laid out on my design floor, as I don't have a design wall.  The top is about 56 by 69 inches, and I do not plan on adding a border. I followed the suggested fabric choices given by the pattern.  I think it turned out well.

It is off to the long arm quilter today, and I hope to get it back and bind it before June 16, when the family and I will be traveling east to visit my mom and dad.  Recall that this is a gift for my mom.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Winter Solstice start

 Good day and welcome to my blog!  I'd like to report on a project that has been simmering in the quilting room for a while.

Firstly:  My mom saw this pattern, and a sample, at a lovely quilt shop in Massachusetts:

She fell in love with it and we bought the range of fabrics (Stonehenge and related fabric lines) suggested by the pattern, with only a few substitutions.  I am making the throw size.

Here they are laid out on my "design floor", to check for value.  Put aside for a while, but I decided to work on this now, with a bit more time available to me.

To start: I made a guide so that I could quickly refer to fabric numbers mentioned in the instructions.

The pattern says it is for intermediate to advanced quilters and I would agree.  No inset seams, but somewhat complex instructions that you should read several times before cutting into your fabrics.

There are "tree" blocks and "mountain" blocks.  I have made the tree blocks, and am in the midst of making the mountain blocks (at top of quilt).  The quilt is assembled in columns and I have the columns partially sewn together.  Here's what I have for now:

I hope to get the rest done in a few weeks, and send it off to the long arm quilter that I use.  This will be a Christmas or Birthday present for mom.  I have in hand recently ordered Stonehenge wide backing fabric for the back.  This backing fabric came from Backside Fabrics.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Scrappy Mountain Majesties Finish

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog!  I have a finish to report.

I blogged in 2020 about starting Scrappy Mountain Majesties by Bonnie Hunter. (see that post for some advice.)  I got this project to a top and there it sat.  Well time moves on and it's time for a finish.  I quilted this myself, in the ditch, on my trusty old Kenmore sewing machine.

Many vintage fabrics in here, including the border and binding, which is at least 30 years old.  Speaking of binding, I did not have enough and added in another Christmas fabric for the last few inches.

One starts with  2 large squares of fabric for each block, but following Bonnie's directions, you slice and rearrange the fabric.  Sometimes a striped fabric will be going in different directions:

Or a novelty fabric will be nearly unrecognizable, like these rainforest frogs:

But's it's a fun pattern, and looks more complicated than it really is.  Finished size is about 54 inches by 73 inches, a good lap quilt size.  No home for this one yet.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

Viridian