Trimmed Geese

All the pink Flying Geese were waiting to be trimmed to size I did about half of the trimming at Sew Day, and the rest the next day.

And here they all are together! Onto the next clue I go for the Lupine Mystery quilt.

 

Almost There Flying Geese

 

The Lupine Mystery pink Flying Geese got ironed, along with a note to myself so I'd press the seam in the ideal way.

All the remaining triangles for the other side of the Flying Geese.

And now ironing the other triangle, with another note to myself to iron the seam in the other direction.

Stacks and stacks of Flying Geese to trim to the correct size.

Halfway Pink Flying Geese

 

First thing that I got sewn in March is the pink and white Flying Geese for the Lupine (no longer a) Mystery quilt.

I really have a large variety of pinks going on here, from very pale all the way to very dark. I really hope it works!

A closeup of the action, using the back of the black polka dot. 

So far I've gotten through all of them, but only on one of the sides.

Pink Lupine Geese

 

So much pink all of a sudden!

Because I was cutting out all of the pink base triangles (the geese?) of the Flying Geese units I'm going to make for Clue #2 of the Lupine Mystery quilt.

Here they are, all ready to go with their white side triangles. Now to get sewing on these,

Lupine Flying Geese

Back to working on the Lupine Mystery quilt, and that means trimming the Flying Geese from Clue 2 that I sewed at the January Bamq Sew Day.

There's all 72 Flying Geese units together, and now to do the other 72 Flying Geese that will be white wings and pink geese. 

BAMQ BOM: Flying Geese

At Sew Day yesterday I worked on making my BAMQ BOM blocks, which are as you can see: Flying Geese.

I like the variety that I made, but am considering also making another couple sets that have dark centers and lighter wings to balance them out.

Here's all of my blocks so far. I think I might need to make some gigantic Flying Geese as well. Well, maybe not exactly gigantic, but at least as big as the checkerboard.

 

Purple Geese

 

At this past weekend's Sew Day, I got to finally break out the purple and start making the Flying Geese units for the second clue of the Lupine mystery quilt. I was able to try out my new Steady Betty pressing mat too. It worked out great, smelled just a little bit, but overall just great. And I remembered to press towards the neutrals.

I came home from Sew Day with the right-hand sky sewn onto about half of the neutral Geese, so first of all those got the left-hand sky pieces sewn on.

Then I cut the rest of the purple sky triangles for the remainder, got those sewn on and pressed.

There they all are.

Still not trimmed, but that's for another day. 

Neutral Triangles

 

Half of the Flying Geese ingredients I need for Clue Two of the Lupine Mystery quilt are now cut out. Next up will be pink triangles for 72 of the Flying Geese. And then 72 pairs of purple for the wings of the other 72 Flying Geese. That's a whole lot of triangles! I'm honestly a little sick of cutting out the white/neturals fabric so I'll be happy to move on to some color.

And yes, the power is Still Out! That's five days now, and four postponements of the estimated time for bringing our power back. grrrrrrrrr That's honestly the worst part, they tell you one thing and then every single day they extend it out just one more day. Very very hard to plan for and deal with. At least we finally saw a big crew of contracted-out non-PG&E people beginning to get to work at 3:30 today. The latest promise is tonight at 11:00pm, but I am Very Much Doubtful. Hey, at least the internet is still on, right? Our internet provider, Comcast, has a generator going just like we do.

Patchwork Palooza #10

 

Coming in hot with Patchwork Palooza block #10. I always think of this orange/fuchsia/lime green as being "hot". I like this block, it has a lot of movement and there are a lot of possibilities with it. I'm liking that I'm getting to use my 2.5"x4.5" Flying Geese Bloc-Loc ruler so much, it really works out when doing the four at a time method. And this is made with scraps from recent projects.

Old Town Aftermath

 So, my teeny tiny HSTs obsession was well fed with the piecing of the Old Town quilt. And regular sized HSTs as well!

And extra Flying Geese, and triangles and strips of various widths. What will I do with them?  For certain, I promise I will not be making a back out of them. Maybe a matching pillow or something like that?

Flying & Long Geese Varieties

Well look at this, I actually got all of those sashing units sewn together. And I only messed up repeating a blue fabric once.

Because I took the time to trim the smaller units to size, everything went together very easily.

I got really excited with this once I started pressing the most recent seams. The combination of the hourglass block with the two smaller flying geese and then the two longest geese is great. Especially when I managed to keep the points pointy.

They're all so pretty together and I'm really looking forward to making the blocks that will be surrounded by these sashing pieces.

I went a little crazy taking all these pictures, so here they all are.

So many distinctive fabrics when you see them up close.

And then from farther away, they blend into a nicely varied wash of somewhat matching colors.

Onto the actual block making next...
 

The Longest Geese

 I think I like calling this block unit the Longest Geese. And isn't this an interesting arrangement of the twenty Longest Geese? 

Now to go cut some more blue/aqua strips to use in making the rest of these.

Long Geese & Lilacs

 

I'm working on the final clue for the mystery quilt, Old Town making these Long Geese. Just a rectangle with a Flying Geese situation at one end. They're going together pretty quickly, especially because they're meant to be scrappy. I'm using the Simple Folded Corners ruler instead of drawing a diagonal line and it's working out very well.

And just in time for Flower Friday, here are the lilacs all blooming. I contrived a reason to be out underneath them (weeding) just so I could spend more time smelling their heavenly fragrance. I don't know who to thank for planting these as they were already well-established when we bought this house way back in 1994. But they've been a garden reliable stalwart and I'm always so thankful for them every year.

Hourglass+Flying Geese

 

Before beginning the first joining-together of units for the Old Town mystery quilt, I decided to do some trimming. This is the result of trimming all of those hourglass units. Doesn't really add up to much! That means I did a pretty good and accurate job of making those hourglass blocks. (pats self on back and is thankful for good directions) 

So...was the time I took to do the trimming worth it? I think so, as you can see, some of these trimmed-off bits are a lot more than mere slivers. That means in the next steps of block making, I would have started out well on the way to inaccurate and wonky. After all the work of making the block ingredients, to me, that means it is worth it to trim before proceeding.

On to the next step, adding coral/melon and white/neutral Flying Geese units to two of the sides of the hourglass. They went together pretty easily.

I tried my hardest to not have any repeating fabrics in these units, and only messed up twice.

And there they all are together! And, that's one more of the clues completed.

Un-mixed Up and Done

 After my mixup the other day, I set myself right and "got right back on the horse that threw me" to get the melon/orange

I started off with cutting the triangles for the rest of the Flying Geese I needed.

Done with those little flying geese for that clue now.

And then I got the correct size of the HSTs going, still have more of those to make to be done with that part of the clue.

So that's enough of that for the day.

A Mixup of Clues

 

I tried to get back into doing at least something in my work room today and started back where I'd left off with the Old Town mystery quilt. I had all the melon fabrics out already ironed and began cutting to finish off the two clues that use that color. Unfortunately when I went to get the white/off-white/neutral pieces I realized that I'd gotten mixed up and instead of cutting for HSTs instead I had instead cut for Flying Geese. whoops! Thankfully it worked out to trim them all into the correct size for the smaller required HST triangles.

Definitely a lot of extra cutting, but oh well, it will work out once they're sewn together.

It was a lot of short seams and ironing, but now this clue is finished! Or so I thought...as I started putting up the previously sewn HSTs (on the right there). That was the moment when I realized that the newly completed HSTs were The Wrong Size. sigh. All that cutting and sewing for nothing. I guess I'll have to use them in the backing or make a pillow that matches the quilt somehow. This is what happens when I don't leave myself good notes. A re-do of this clue's requirements and a whole starting over fresh thing will happen today.