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Our Technique of the Month students have been making Flying Geese this month. We looked at three different methods for making them and some of the blocks we could make – there are just so many to choose from, many based on the Sawtooth Star, but this year we made Dutchman’s Puzzle and Rambler. Each…
Back in March the sampler quilt / technique of the month students looked at Quarter-square triangles (or QST for short). We explored the different ways of making them and some of the blocks they are used in. You can find a free downloadable tutorial to make these units here. Have a look at You Tube…
There is a ‘formula’ for virtually every shape we need to cut for patchwork. Hopefully the following will help you to work out how to rotary cut Flying Geese. Finished size – this is the size of the unit/piece once it is stitched into the block/quilt. Rounding up to the nearest ⅛ inch. If you…
Most quilts are ‘straight set’ – that is the blocks are set square to the edges of the quilt; sometimes there are sashing strips between the blocks, sometimes not. Sashing strips can make a quilt larger and they can also act as coping strips when pieced individually around each block as they enable you to…
About twenty years ago I was actively involved with the Quilters’ Guild Young Quilters group. Tidying up recently I came across a couple of (handwritten) projects we did with our local Young Quilters during the Easter holidays some time in the 1990s. One year we made Easter Bunnies – we had two patterns, one from…
I know I wrote a bit about these units last time but I thought I’d revisit them as they are so versatile – and we’ve been doing them in our classes this month! We moved on from strips and squares to learn about half-square triangles (or HST units) – how to cut them, what measurements…
You’ve seen a lovely quilt you would like to make; you have managed to break the design down and seen it is made from a number of Flying Geese units. But what size? Flying Geese units are traditionally made one at a time by stitching two small half-square triangles to the shorter sides of one…
Having previously looked at sizes for squares and rectangles it is now the turn of triangles, in particular the Half-Square and Quarter-Square triangle units. There is a ‘formula’ for virtually every shape we need to cut for patchwork. Hopefully the following will help you to work out how to rotary cut your triangles. Finished size…
I was going to write about making Half-Square Triangles and the blocks using them that we have been making in our classes this month, but I got side-tracked by some of my students and a few beginners in the Facebook Groups asking about cutting and how to work out what to cut and how big…
