Flying geese quilt border ideas

These printable continuous Flying Geese FPP Strips are perfect for borders, features or accents in your patchwork. Eleven sizes included.

As promised a tutorial for my latest finish...the Rainbow Quilt. The daughter of a dear friend of my mom's had a baby boy in May and in my book babies = quilt. So I got to work on this little quilt..I hope she likes it! As the mother is a school teacher I thought what better than a quilt with all the colours of the rainbow...ah yes, you bright spark at the back might notice I forgot indigo...well creative license I'm afraid as a) indigo isn't a easy colour to source and b) having 7 colours…

St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick August 2012 Just a quick pop in from beautiful St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick to share a quilt made by a friend of mine, Robin Tilsworth. Those who have been following along for awhile know that I spoke at my guild in June about the online quilt world and modern quilting. I was blown away when Robin emailed me in early July with this completed top below. I had shared my Modern Block Monday blocks and the book 99 Modern Block, in which this…

Please use flying geese of any size and in any order for this month’s row/strip.. Remember I said you are the “leader” of your strip show. If you choose to let me lead, this month the directions I followed are in this newsletter. 7 Each strip/row can be a different width, but they will all need to be the same length. For this to happen I’ve chosen to add a piece of cream fabric to each end of the strip/row and on each side of the strip. I will use this extra fabric when I’ve finished all the…

A beginner in quilting? It’s time for your to try the geese block with this easy pattern from The Melody

Flying geese border

We have a monthly bucket list challenge over on Cbees. This month is flying geese. The purpose of the bucket list is to broaden your methods or techniques with a selected skill. If you want to join in the fun, you can join the group HERE . It is important to know that Cbees is a sister 'activity' list of Cyberquilters, so you must be a member of Cyberquilters first, before you can join Cbees. Now, stay calm. I know you are joining two yahoo groups, but they are some of the best quilting…

While checking out one of the blogs I follow, Civil War Quilts, I follow this blog so I can draw the blocks in EQ 7. While there I saw a q...

I got Halo Medallion loaded on the longarm this weekend. I had two days of quilting. Everything worked out great. Good tension. Lots of ide...

Learn about the Creative Grids Ultimate Flying Geese Tool with a video and details about this ruler to help sew perfect flying geese blocks.

Free motion quilting sampler block using quilt as you go technique. How to quilt flying geese block.

Once you learn how to make flying geese 4 at a time you’ll be making lots of flying geese quilts! The flying geese block should be in every quilter’s ‘toolbox’. The ease of making this block puts it at the top of the list for many quilters to use. Plus, the flexibility of designing a quilt with this block makes it very appealing to quilters. A free flying geese quilt pattern.

Here is a quick tutorial for Flying Geese really written as instructions for my fellow Stitch Teasers since its my month to be Queen Bee. It's pretty basic, and there are tons of tutorials out there for these - but I'm going old school back to the basics for these this month which allows for lots of variety for this quilt. So, Stitch Tease Bee Mates: This is what we're going to make this month. Let's just pretend all these flying geese are all joined together nice and pretty for one giant…

This is a hard-copy of the pattern for those of you that prefer this format. Shipping and handling is added to your final cost at checkout. Shipping and handling covers First Class postage as well as supplies and time to produce the pattern to be mailed to you. This includes the pattern (3 pages, double-sided, and 21 single-sided, on high-quality heavyweight paper) which consists of paper and ink to print the pattern, packaging, envelope, postage, and gas to deliver to the local post office…

As I cruise around Pinterest, often I see pins of my quilting in a Flying Geese border from this post. With this I've had several inquiries about what path I used to quilt this border... So here it is... Step by step directions. (the geese are flying sideways in my diagrams, but it's the same no matter which directions they are going) I start with quilting my feather in the bottom goose and Stitch in the Ditch to the right corner (or bottom corner in the diagram). Continuous Curve up to the…

Make quilt blocks of all sizes with this flying geese quilt block tutorial that also includes a Medallion Quilt tutorial.