Birds in the Air

Week 9 of Barbara Brackman's Civil War Quilts Sampler is Birds in the Air

I've given printing directions for slightly more shapes than you need. Makes it easier to machine-piece that way.
Do not print the Focus 1 fabric, but layer it with your printed background-fabric and stitch from the BF-side.
If you hand-piece, print all (possible) fabrics.

The block isn't really Inklingoable in the 8" format, so you're on your own there, but it is eminently Inklingoable in the 6" format.

added on March 20
Took my own advice from another post (duh!), and went to Linda's wonderful page of Triangle Tips on inklingo.com.
Open the Triangle-tips page.
Scroll down.
Find a version of Birds in the Air that is eminently Inklingoable and how to make it.
To make things even better : Linda's version makes the 8" block inklingoable :-)
end of addition.


Do not print the Focus 1 HST. The size of fabric given in the printing-table is for layering with half of the printed Background Fabric HST

Machine-piecing : Make a total of 4 squares from background- and Focus 1 fabric. Discard one.
Join them as shown by Brackman.
Add the large, Focus 2 fabric HST.

Finished.

Link to Brackman's post and her directions.
Link to the printing table.

Chain and Bar

Barbara Brackmann # 1961

Uses Collection 2 or the downloadable Inklingo HST 00B collection

Fabric 1 (background)
4 HST, each 2.25"
3.75 x 6.75"

16 HST, each 0.75"
3.75 x 5.25"

Fabric 2 (focus)

3.75 x 6.75, to layer with same size Fabric 1

Two squares, each 2.75" to make a total of 8 Flying Geese

Two rectangles, each 2 x 2.75"



Make a total of 4 squares, using the printed 2.25" HST background-fabric, layered with the same size Focus-fabric.

Make a total of 8 Flying Geese, using Linda's method of making no-waste Flying Geese.

Make two strips of Flying Geese, each with 4 geese "flying" in the same direction.
Join the two strips, points meeting.
Make the two outside strips, each consisting of ; HST-square, rectangle, HST-square
Make sure that the HST-squares are mirror-imaging each other around the rectangle.

Join the 3 strips.

Finished !

Nearly Insane !

Yes, Nearly Insane, or - as I would have it - Definitely Bonkers :-)

I've gotten Liz Lois' permission to share this block with everyone. She is the lady who wrote the book "Nearly Insane". The block with the most pieces in that truly amazing book, is block # 18.
It has 218 pieces !
And my love of precision battled mightily with my decision to try and machine-piece all the blocks on this blog. The decision won over the love, which is why it is not (nearly) as precise as I could have done it by hand. HOWever, I know that there are machine-piecers out there who can do it precisely with ease.

There are many (MANY) blocks in the "Nearly Insane" book that can be Inklingo'ed. All you have to do is decide whether the unit you want to Inklingo is a QST or a HST. Then measure the size of the unit in the book and pick the same size Inklingo template.

In this case, the majority of units are HST (Half Square Triangles), and they are all 0.5". Your measurement in the book, as well as the size of the Inklingo template, is the finished size.

I recommend you down-load Monkey's Cheat-sheet, and write down the requirements on one, before embarking. It is much easier to follow the printing-directions when written on the cheat-sheet, than it is on what can be written up for a blog, (and I have not yet mastered the art of embedding a pdf-file on a blog)

In the original block, there is no "background-fabric", I have, however, chosen to use the background fabric that I have used throughout the sampler-blocks. For ease of reference (since this is a many-pieces block), I have written the colour of the fabric I have used in the printing-directions too.

The block is made, either with Collection 2 or the new, downloadable HST collection and QST collection.

Fabric-1 (background, white / light)

96 HST, 0.5" - uses the square layout, (which is both on the CD and in the downloadable collection)
6.25 x 11.5" printed Landscape AND
6.25 x 11.5" printed Landscape
4 QST, 0.5"
2 x 4" (use smallest size your printer will accept, for mine it's 3 x 5")
4 squares, 0.5", (not printable).
Cut each square 1" for a finished size of 0.5"

Fabric-2 ( Focus 1, pink / medium)
3.25 x 11.5 to layer with Fabric-1, (do not print), giving a total of 32 HST-squares
2x 4" to layer with Fabric-1, (do not print), giving a total of 4 QST-squares
9 squares, 0.5", (not printable).
Cut each square 1" for a finished size of 0.5"

Fabric-3 (Focus 2, brown/ dark)
6.25 x 11.5" to layer with Fabric-1, (do not print), giving a total of 64 HST-squares
4 squares, 0.5", (not printable).
Cut each square 1" for a finished size of 0.5"
2 rectangles, each 0.75 x 1.5", (not printable).
Cut each rectangle 1.25 x 2"
2 rectangles, each 0.75 x 3" (not printable).
Cut each rectangle 1.25 x 3.5"

- - -

Make all the HST and QST units. See Triangle Tips, or in your collection, OR in the Inklingo Handbook for tips and hints on how to do it.
This step will take quite some time, since you will need to trim off all the points. The bits in this block are so small, that everything that can be trimmed, should be trimmed. FORtunately, with Inklingo, you have lines along which to trim, so it isn't hard at all, just somewhat time-consuming.

Take the QST-units, of the Fabric-1 and Fabric-2 bits.
Make a star, exactly the same way you did the Ohio Star. The only difference between the two is the size !
Border the star with the rectangles made with Fabric-3, adding first the two short rectangles to opposite sides, then the two longer to the remaining sides.

Next comes a number of rows of HST. They are not difficult to make, however, to get the block to look as it should according to the book, it is important that you look closely at the pictures, and add them as they are there ...
Another option is to live with it looking different from the original pattern, and rest at ease, since only NI-buffs with a strong leaning towards QuiltPolice will ever notice :-)
Disregarding Inklingo, this block is a bear to frog-stitch and to press. Do not expect it to lay flat with ease.

Make 4 rows, each with 6 HST-squares of Fabric-1 and 3
To two of these rows, add a Fabric-2 square to each side.
Join the two rows that have no square at the end, to opposite sides of the centre unit.
Join the two remaining rows to the remaining two sides.




Make 4 rows, each with 8 HST-squares of Fabric-1 and 2
To two of these rows, add a Fabric-3 square to each side
Join the two rows that have no square at the end, to opposite sides of the centre unit.
Join the two remaining rows to the remaining two sides.




Make 4 rows, each with 10, HST-squares of Fabric-1 and 3
To two of these rows, add a Fabric-2 square to each side.
Join the two rows that have no square at the end, to opposite sides of the centre unit.
Join the two remaining rows to the remaining two sides.

Finished !

Free Pattern - Passacaglia

In the year 1973, the British author Lucy Boston made a quilt for her friend, harpsicordist Colin Tilney.
As all of her quilts, it is fairly simple in it's basic construction, yet very intricate in its execution.

In early August of this year (2009), I was given a copy of Diana Boston's book "The Patchworks of Lucy Boston", and saw the picture of the quilt.

The book has no directions, just a few pictures, but since when has that stopped a determined quilter :-) I fell in love. Hard. Really, really hard :-) And started to make blocks to make my own version of this quilt. As of now (December 2009), I have finished 30+ blocks, all of which you can see on my other blog.

Then, a couple of months ago, I wrote Diana Boston, and asked her permission to make a pattern, and she graciously granted that. The quilt is not in her posession, however, but resides in Canada, with Colin Tilney.

When I started to write the pattern, it turned out to be very, very difficult to make lucid AND comprehensive, wherefore some very hard decisions were necessary. This is why the pattern I'm giving away this Christmas, is a pattern for a table-runner, and not a full quilt. Should you want to make a full quilt of your own, however, it should be possible to do with the information in the pattern.

The pattern turned out to be impossible to write it up for the blog, which is why you need to download it at Linda Franz Inklingo home-page. It is written for the Free Collection, so if money are low, but stash is high, you need not go out and buy anything at all.

You can buy Diana Boston's book direct from her, right here, or, if you are in North America, from Linda Franz, right here. Be aware, though, that there are no patterns in the book, just pictures of the quilts Lucy Boston made.

You can download your free Passacaglia pattern here : http://lindafranz.com/product.php?productId=55

Merry Christmas ! And if you don't celebrate that, then Happy New Year :-)

Washington Star

Could be State of, could be George, could be DC. You choose.

QST for this one ! and some Flying Geese :-)

Uses Collection 2

Since this block deals with quite small units, it makes the most sense to me to make not two flying geese in each colourway, but 4, and discard the two surplus. Likewise, it makes most sense to make 6 QST-squares, and discard one.
This is therefore, what the directions are made for.

Fabric 1 (background)
4 squares, each 1.5" (cut 2")
8 rectangles, each 0.75 x 1.5" (cut 1.25 x 2")
10 QST, 1.5" (p. 102)
3.5 x 9.25" (prints 12)
20 HST, 0.75" (p. 60)
5.75 x 7.5" (prints 24)

Fabric 2 (focus A)
10 QST, 1.5" (p. 102)
3.5 x 9.25" (do not print, but layer with the printed background-fabric)
1 square, 2.75" for 2 flying geese units (makes 4, but 2 are discarded)
Fabric 3 (focus B)
1 square, 2.75" for 2 flying geese units (makes 4, but 2 are discarded)
4 HST, 0.75" (p. 60)
2 x 3.5" (do not print, but layer with the printed background-fabric)

Make a total of 5 QST in Fabrics 1 and 2

see Linda's Triangle Tips on Flying Geese
Make the Flying Geese units with Fabrics 1 and 2
Make the Flying Geese units with Fabrics 1 and 3

Lay out the block as shown in picture on the right.
(click on picture if you have trouble seeing the individual units)

Join to form 5 rows, as shown in picture on the left.

Join rows

Finished !

Hexagon bonus block # 8

Spiderweb ... well ... it is Halloween tomorrow :-)

Uses Collection # 1

Finished size is 3" to the side

Fabric 1
3 half elongated hexagons (p. 45), 4.75 x 5"
3 half hexagons, 1" (p. 26), 3.5 x 4.5" (printed landscape
3 triangles, 1" (p. 52), 4 x 5" (yields 6 triangles)

Fabric 2
3 half elongated hexagons (p. 45), 4.75 x 5"
3 half hexagons, 1" (p. 26), 3.5 x 4.5" (printed landscape
3 triangles, 1" (p. 52), 4 x 5" (yields 6 triangles)


This is one of the few hexagon-blocks that is easy to machine-piece, so hand- or machine is the same. Whatever feels the more comfortable to you.

Print and cut apart shapes.

Start by making 3 triangle-units in each of the two colourways, as shown on picture to the left, making each triangle striped.
Press to the dark

Join the triangles, alternating light and dark, into two half-hexagons, each with 3 triangles, like the picture on the right.
Press, so the seams all lie open.

Join the two half-hexagons to finish the spider-web.
Now, this final pressing involves you having to turn some of the seams on the centre triangles. There is no way one can make triangles press beautifully and perfectly, so there will have to be some turned seams in there.

Halloween Coasters - The Bat

Here's a fun, fast and cute little non-square block to make into Halloween coasters.

Uses Collection 2 and (if you want to print squares and rectangles as well) the POTC-collection or collection 1.

Finished size of coaster : 5 x 6"

Barbara Brackmann # 217.5

Focus (bat)
One 6.25" square
Two 1" squares (cut 1.5")


Background
7.25 x 7.5" (for printing), Collection 2, p. 74
4 rectangles, each 1 x 2" (cut 1.5 x 2.5") OR print from the Lucy Boston / POTC collection, p. 68
3.5 x 5.75"

Batting
Two scraps, each 5.5 x 6"

Backing
Two scraps, each 6 x 6.5"

Make two units of rectangle-square-rectangle (picture)
Make 4 Flying Geese, using the method described in Collection 2, p. 34-35, or in the Triangle Tips p. 10-11

Join the units as shown in the picture

Repeat.

Cut the two scraps you have picked for backing, down the middle, making each into two rectancles, 3 x 6.5".

Using the basting-stitch on your sewing-machine, piece them back together again.

Press to one side.

Layer your bits as shown on the picture : Backing and Block with right sides together. The batting on top of the pieced square. Yes. This is important. You need to have the seam on the backing accessible, because next step is :

Unpick the basting-stitch you used to join the two halves of your backing.

Turn.

Hand-stitch closed ... and that is fairly easy, because you pressed the seams on the backing, so they have a nice crease on one side.

Quilt if / as desired.

Repeat for the other one.

Finished !

Garden of Eden

or Economy Patch

This block finishes at 5". Check here (link to the Cake Stand block, published September 4th), what measurements to cut strips, in order to make it into a 6" block

This block can be made exclusively with pieces from the Lucy Boston / Inklingo Lite # 4 collection. You can also make it with Collection # 2 and some old-fashioned cutting of squares and rectangles :-), or, if the cutting of squares scares you, use Collection # 1 to print those.

Using the POTC collection

Fabric 1 (background)
4 rectangles, (p. 68), 1 x 2"
3.5 x 5.75"
4 squares, (p. 54) 1.41"
4.25 x 4.5"

Fabric 2 (focus A)
1 square, 1" (cut 1.5")
... don't bother to print this one, just cut it out, 1.5"
16 HST, (p. 58), 1"
5 x 6.75"

Using collection 1 and 2

Fabric 1 (background)
4 rectangles, 1 x 2" (cut 1.5 x 2.5")
4 squares, (Collection 1, p. 59) 2" (or cut 2.5")
5.75" square

Fabric 2 (focus A)
16 HST (Collection 2, p. 62), 1"
4.5 x 8.5"
1 square, 1"
... don't bother to print this one, just cut it out, 1.5"

The way to make the Economy-patches that go on each corner of the finished block is different for the two collections.

2" Economy-patches using the POTC-collection
Join a triangle to each of two opposite sides of each 1.41" square.

Press.

Join a triangle to the remaining two opposite sides of the 1.41" square.

Press.

Repeat, until you have 4 economy patches.


2" Economy-patches using Collection 2 (and 1)
Lay out a 1" triangle on opposite corners of a 2" square, as you did when making the X-quisite block.

If you have printed the 2" squares, you can use the match-mark on the side as a guide for placing your triangle.

Join, trim and press.

Add a 1" triangle to each of the remaining two opposite sides of the 2" square.

Press.

Repeat, until you have 4 economy patches.

Making the rest of the block, is the same, disregarding which collection you have used to prepare your patches.

Take a rectangle, and add an economy patch to each side of it. Do this twice.
Make a long strip, adding the two remaining rectangles to each side of the 1" square.

Add the three strips, so the slim strip is between the two strips with economy patches.

Finished.

If you know of patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 1873 (5")

X-quisite

This is an all-over pattern, that can be made with any size square and any size HST, just remember, that the finished size of the HST (the size given in Inklingo) should be half the finished side of the square used.

Elly made the sample on the right.

Uses Collection # 2.

I have chosen to make it with four sections / as a 16-patch, but any size goes fine.

Fabric 1 (background)
16 squares, each 1.5" (cut 2")

Focus-fabric
32 HST, (p. 60) 0.75"

3.75 x 5.75" in two fabrics that are not the ones you used to make the BowTie block. With the left-over HST from last weeks block, you will have the 32 you need.

Print and cut apart.

Make all the square units, adding a HST to opposite corners of each square. Please note, that you are only adding triangles to two out of four corners.

Trim the excess from the squares.

Press towards the corners.

Join the squares in strips, each with 4 squares, and with the triangle-corners all facing the same way.

Make a total of 4 strips.

Join the strips.

Finished.

If you know of patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 3250

BowTie

This is another way of using the HST in Collection # 2.

Block on the right is Elly's version of the Bow Tie.

Check Linda's Triangle Tips, p. 14-15 on how to make "fast corners" with Inklingo.

OR check Linda's short video on the same subject, found on her All About Inklingo blog.

Fabric 1 (background)
8 squares, each 1.5" (cut 2")
4 x 8"

Fabric 2 (focus A)
4 squares, each 1.5" (cut 2")
4 x 4"
4 HST, (p. 60) 0.75"
3.75 x 3.75", or 3.75 x the smallest lenght your printer will print (this will yield at the least 8 HST, but do not worry about the 4 HST you will have left over, save them for next weeks block)

Fabric 3 (focus B)
4 squares, each 1.5" (cut 2")
4 x 4"
4 HST, (p. 60) 0.75"
3.75 x 3.75", or 3.75 x the smallest lenght your printer will print (this will yield, at the least 8 HST, but do not worry about the 4 HST you will have left over, save them for next weeks block)

Cut the squares, print the HST, and cut 4 HST from each focus-fabric.
When using HST to corner a square, it is very important to trim off the points on the lines provided in the program. You need the un-pointy points in order to be able to align the triangle to the square.

Add a triangle to one corner of each of the 8 background-fabric squares.
Trim off the excess.
Press.

Join each of your pieced units to a focus-fabric square. Make sure that you join the right "cornered squares" to the right focus-fabric squares. They should all be joined along the same edge, making four identical sets of each focus-fabric.

Press, and check that you have them turning all the same way, relative to each other.

Join the sets in pairs, making a total of 4 BowTie blocks, two from each colour.

Join the BowTies as you please, the mock-ups below, are the options that are, apart from the one I have chosen ... and if you make a full quilt out of it, doll- or person sized, these two turn out the same in an all-over.

If you know of other patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com



Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 3608

Double T

Uses Collection # 2.

This block is one that I had to make. My first name starts with a T as does that of my DH. Very important block :-)

Martha's block on top, Elly's block below.



Use the Flying Geese method, found on p. 10-11 of the Triangle Tips.


Fabric 1 (background)
Two 3.25" squares for the Geese
3.5 x 6.75 for printing 2" HST
One 2.5" square

Fabric 2 (focus)
4.5 x 8.5" for printing 1" HST
3.5 x 6.75 for layering with the BF 2" HST


From p. 62 of Collection # 2, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your fabric.
Cut a 4.5 x 8.5" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.
Print 16 HST with a finished (square) side at 1"

From page 70 of Collection # 2, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your fabric.
Cut a 3.5 x 6.75" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.
Print 4 HST with a finished (square) side at 2"
Press those towards the background-fabric.

Layer the two fabrics that are each 3.5 x 6.75", right sides together.
Sew on the diagonal (dotted) lines.
Cut on all the straight (whole) lines.
Iron your HST to the light / background-fabric.

Make 8 Flying Geese, usingLinda's directions in the the Triangle Tips file, p.10-11. You will use the two 3.25" squares of Background fabric and the 16 1" HST for this.

Join the Geese in pairs, so they fly the same way.
Lay out the (now) 9 bits, to form the block
Join as you would a 9-patch.

OR, you could go to town, and make the T's in two different colours. There's a bit more printing involved here, but Linda's method of making Flying Geese actually works well for this one.

Two-colour version.

Fabric 1 (background)
Two 3.25" squares for the Geese
3.5 x 6.75 for printing 2" HST
One 2.5" square

Fabric 2 (focus A)
4.5" square for printing 1" HST
3.5" square for layering with the BF 2" HST

Fabric 3 (focus B)
4.5" square for printing 1" HST
3.5" square for layering with the BF 2" HST

Start making the flying geese exactly as directed, using the same fabric HST to make the first part.
When they are cut apart, and have been pressed, use HSTs from the other focus-fabric to make the second round.

This will give you Geese with two different colours of corners, and they will be mirror image. This is as it should be.

Lay out Geese, that have same focus-fabric to the same side, and join them in pairs, making sure the Geese turn the same way.

Lay out your block.
Join as you would a 9-patch.

Press.
Finished !

If you know of patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 1662a

And here's an interesting story about the Double-T block, that Dorothy shared (and thank you for that, Dorothy) :

You may know that before women had the vote in the US, many expressed their political beliefs through their quilts. Blocks like Tippecanoe, Whig Rose, 54-40 or Fight, etc. all expressed the quilter's views on issues of the day. The T-block has the same significance.
In the mid 19th century, a huge reaction to the ubiquity of liquor in American life arose. The Temperance movement grew, and the T in this block stands for Temperance.
Eventually women in the US won the right to vote, and shortly after that, Prohibition (the Constitutional amendment outlawing the sale of liquor) became law.

Evening star

This one uses Collection # 2.

Finished size : 6"

Since the star-points are made using Flying Geese, you might want to check p. 34 in Collection 2, or the Inklingo Handbook, p. 55-57, or the Triangle Tips file, p.10-11, for the nifty, no-waste way of making Flying Geese with Inklingo.

For this block, the back of your focus-fabric needs to be light enough for you to see at least one of the Inklingo ink-colours

Martha's block on top

Elly's block below

More versions of this block right here.




Fabric 1 (background)
One 4.25" square (unprinted)
4 squares cut 2" each

Fabric 2 (focus)
One 5.25" square (for printing 8 HST)
One 3.5" square (unprinted)

From p. 66 of collection 2, pick the ink-colour that works best with your focus-fabric.
Iron the 5.25" square of focus-fabric to a piece of freezer-paper the same size.
Cut the printed bit, into 4 sets of HST, each of the 4 sets being a square.

Follow Linda's directions in the the Triangle Tips file, p.10-11, making 4 Geese.

Lay out your block, so it forms a star.

Join as you would a 9-patch.

Variation : Use a 3" (finished) 9-patch as centre, rather than a solid (see the 3" 9-patch post, and Elly's rendition of the block above).


If you've dreamt about making the Sarah Johnson quilt, you might consider the Inklingo method of making Flying Geese, both for the border, and for the 172 stars that form the bulk of this quilt. The Flying geese you need to make the 4" star blocks, will be 1 x 2" finished, so you will need the 1" HST from Collection 2 for those.

If you know of patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 2138a

Hexagon bonus block # 5

Hexagon Pinwheel
Uses Collection # 3
Finished size (of side) : 3"

Fabric 1 (background-fabric)
4.5 x 5.5" (for triangles)

Fabric 2 (focus-fabric)
4.25 x 10.25" (for half-hexagons)
OR
6 x 7.25

From p. 143 in collection 3, pick
the ink-colour that works best
with your fabrics.
Cut a 4.5 x 4.5" piece of
background-fabric and same size
freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

From p. 107 in collection 3, pick the ink-colour that works best with your fabrics.
Cut a 4.25 x 10.25" piece of background-fabric and same size freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

Start by joining the triangles to the half-hexagons, forming new triangles with a finished size of 3". Make 6.


Lay out the 6 triangles, so they form the pinwheel.

Join them in two sets of three.

Join the two sets.

Finished

Dutchman's Puzzle

Uses Collection # 2.
Block finishes at 6".

Martha's block on top left, Elly's block bottom left.

More interpretations of this block is found here.

We are now moving into Flying Geese.

Check the directions on how to make them in the Triangle Tips p. 10-11

This one uses 8 Flying Geese, each 1.5 x 3"
To make a set of 4 Flying Geese you need :


Fabric 1 (background-fabric)
5.5 x 10.5" (sixteen 1.5" HST)

Fabric 2 (focus-fabric)
Two squares, each 4.25"

From p. 66 in Collection 2, pick the ink-colour that works best with your fabrics.
Cut a 5.5 x 10.5" piece of background-fabric and same size freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

Make 8 Flying Geese, following the directions in the Triangle Tips.
Join the Geese in pairs, both pointing the same way.
Lay out the pairs of Geese, so the centre triangles form a pinwheel.
Join as you would a 4-patch.


Variation
This variation is a bit tricky, but it looks neat, and even though it is tricky, it isn't all that hard. It "just" requires you to breathe slowly and take it easy, and not rush through the motions :-)

Fabric 1 (background-fabric)
5.5 x 8" (twelve 1.5" HST)

Fabric 2 (focus-fabric A)
Two squares, each 4.25"

Fabric 3 (focus-fabric B)
3.5 x 5.75" (four 1.5" HST)

From p. 66 in Collection 2, pick the ink-colour that works best with your fabrics.
Cut a 5.5 x 8" piece of background-fabric and same size freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

Cut a 3.5 x 5.75" piece of focus-fabric B and same size freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

Make one set of Flying Geese, exactly as above, the other set, is made slightly differently. (I have made this set in batiks, so the colours will show clearly, the ones I used for the "real" block, were not illustrative at all).

Cut apart the remaining HST from Focus-fabrics A and B
Lay the HST on the 4.25" square, very carefully, making certain they align perfectly with both each other and the outside of the larger square. (See picture for distribution of colours)

Sew on the diagonal seam-lines as if you had not cut the HST apart.
Cut on the diagonal straight line.
Press.


Lay the next set of HST on your focus-fabric A bits. (See picture for distribution of colours)
Sew on diagonal seam-lines.
Cut on diagonal straight line.
Press.

Join a two-colour goose to a one-colour goose, and make all 4 sets identical.

Join the sets, two and two.

Join the double-sets (make sure they are all aligned the right way with each other).

Press
Finished.

If you know of patterns or books that uses this block in this size, please let me know, and I'll make links to each of the ones I'm aware of. miz_pal (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Barbara Brackman's "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns" # 1339a