4/30/2023 0 Comments Castaway paradise basic tutorialAnother thing I’m not always good at is patience. Then again, I cheat – I have an AccuQuilt cutter that makes perfect shapes every time. I have only six rulers myself and that works fine for me. ALWAYS use your rulers.” If she hadn’t taught me that, I’d probably have quit quilting a long time ago due to frustration. On the first day of my quilting lessons, my teacher told me, “NEVER use the cutting mat grid for measuring, your pieces won’t be accurate. And if any quadrant includes organized but scatterbrained – that’s me! I really need someone as intelligent as you who can figure this stuff out.Īll I know is that I should always use my ruler(s) for measuring. I’m not a student of Herrmann’s theory on brain quadrants but I know enough to realize that I’m NOT strong in the logical and analytical quadrant. What a clever way to make flying geese! The nudge tip is brilliant thank you. And don’t forget to use the code “TWOPDFS” for $2 off 2 patterns or “THREEPDFS” for $4 off 3 patterns. Today is the final day that you can get the Fractures pattern in the Quilting Jetgirl pattern shop for the introductory sale price of $10. By using my lint roller to clean up my cutting mat between each flying geese block trim, I am helping to extend the life of my cutting mat by keeping the small fibers from being forced into the mat with subsequent cuts as I trim through my stack of blocks.įeel free to pin the image above so that you can come back and reference these tips the next time you need to make no-waste flying geese. I keep a lint roller handy when I am trimming up flying geese blocks because there is often just a small amount of fabric fuzz created in addition to trimming off the dog ears. Once the first two sides are trimmed, simply rotate the block and align the trimmed edges with the trim size lines on your ruler and trim the remaining two sides. As you can see, I will mostly be cutting the dog ears off of my flying geese block along the right-hand side and across the top after working through all of these steps and tips. In this orientation, I can align the 45-degree line of my ruler with the top half of the flying geese block, check to make sure that I will be able to maintain a ¼” beyond the point of the flying geese triangle when the block is trimmed, and make sure the the trim size of the flying geese block (2½” x 4½” in this case) falls at intersection points of the sewn seams. Because I don’t use specialty rulers to trim my flying geese, I like to make my first two trims of the flying geese blocks with the flying geese block pointing to the left (if I were left-handed, I would point it to the right). You all know that I’m a minimalist (and doing my best to live and work in a small space), so I don’t have a lot of specialty rulers. Trim to the unfinished size as necessary, removing dog ears and making sure there is ¼” between the point and edge of the flying geese block.įor this tutorial, I am going to be making flying geese that will finish at 2″ x 4″, so I will be using (1) large square that measure 5¼” and (4) small squares that measure 2⅞”. Cut on the marked line and press seams open.ĥ. Sew a scant ¼” seam on either side of the marked line. Mark a diagonal line on the back of the square.Ĥ. Place a small square on the exposed corner of an intermediate unit, right sides together. This will create (2) intermediate units.ģ. Mark a diagonal line across the smaller squares.Ģ. Place (2) Fabric small squares on opposite corners of a large square, right sides together. However, I’m confident that like me, once you give these tips a try you’ll find that you are making flying geese that need minimal trimming!ġ. If, after using all the tips that I share in this post, your flying geese are ending up too small, you can cut the smaller squares ⅛” larger and the larger squares ¼” larger than listed in the table. When making flying geese, I prefer to work with the block sizes listed in the table above. No-Waste Flying Geese Table and Illustration
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