Starting out with sewing the first up block for the Old Town mystery quilt. I'm going to try all the different ways presented to make the required Flying Geese and compare and contrast my accuracy with each method. This is the simple rotary cut version. The neutral is a square that is cross-cut and the aqua is a smaller square that is cut once on the diagonal.
Note to self, the different way of pressing these in the directions means that your Bloc-Loc flying geese ruler really really does NOT work well. It depends on both of the seams being pressed towards the corner triangles. The reason given for pressing the two seams differently is distributing the bulk better when the quilt is assemble.
The weird background is not fabric but is the new wall calendar I bought for myself for next year. This is from a collage artist I really enjoy a whole lot,
Ravi Zupa. We came across his work
on matchboxes that really cracked us up and then I looked him up online and found his other work. And yes that is an old iPod in the foreground, complete with vertical lines in the screen, but it still works! In my efforts to cool it on too much podcast listening I'm switching back to music for a little aural vacation. ahhhh.
This set was made with the normal to me technique of a flip and sew (and kind of wasteful), a square on either end of the rectangle sewn on the diagonal line that you draw. Very accurate, but that's probably because that's my usual technique.
This set was made using the
Essential Triangle ruler, first time I've tried it, you cut the triangles from a strip of fabric. Pretty easy. No lines being drawn which is nice. Not quite as accurate, but for a first time not bad. And no extra waste.
A few more techniques to try out, and many more Flying Geese to make, but hey, at least I've started!
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