In my blogs here I am trying to show the various units that make up most of the patchwork blocks we find in quilts – units such as half-square triangles (HST), quarter-square triangles (QST) and Flying Geese. Once w…

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 f…

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…

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 o…

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 nee…

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…