Wednesday 13 June 2012

Playing with Geese

I've had a grand old time today playing with flying geese. The lovely Trudi asked for Flying Geese blocks to start us off on the second year of the Brit Bee on Flickr using Karavan by Valerie Wells and some Kaffe Fasset scraps. Her last words on asking us to make her flying geese were "Please play and have fun with it!"


I have a great app for my Iphone called the Quick and Easy Block Tool. I really like it, it gives cutting and assembly directions for loads of quilt blocks and gives different size options. I love the Night Vision block. I made a few a while ago for a mini quilt swap, and decided that would be a good start. The last time I made them I was too scared to try anything smaller than a 6" block, but this time I went for a 3" block :)


After that I took Trudi's instructions to heart and couldn't stop playing! I didn't plan this block at all, it just kind of fell out of my head as I went. It ended up a bit of a biggie at 20", and I could have happily kept playing, but then Trudi may have ended up with a little quilt top!


The little pinwheels in the corners are made from the offcuts from some of the geese, so I decided it was fine to include them, as they are the products of the geese - oooo they are gosling blocks!

Anyway, I hope Trudi likes her block. I had a lot of fun making it :) There are some other lovely geese blocks popping up in the Brit Bee group if you fancy a gander at them (Ho ho I crack  myself up!)

Happy Wednesday
Fiona x

18 comments:

  1. Oh Happy Geese indeed! I love it Fiona! And I am so thrilled you had so much fun playing! I can't wait to get to play with all the blocks!

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  2. Ohhhh lovely Geese! Looks wonderful with all the various fabrics

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  3. Fantastic! Makes me want to redo mine now.

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  4. Holy cow, I bow at your webbed feet!

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  5. Great mini quilt. The colors and prints are so happy and cheerful together.

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  6. oohh! pretty pretty! I really like the pinwheel bits in each corner. great make!

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  7. Wowee!! They are beautiful!! I need to get on and make mine before all the good designs are done!

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  8. This is wonderful, it is just so happy and full of life!

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  9. LOL! You're so funny! Your block just looks like fun on a plate! Aren't geese the best things to play around with. And such fun fabrics too! Jxo

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  10. Oh boy thats a cracker!!! How many blocks are in that?! Well done missus, am now bit worried bout my plans.... lol

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  11. oh that's a fantastic block, fun fabrics x

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  12. I love your teeny weeny centre block! And I love how you just kept playing and it kept getting bigger. It looks wonderful.

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  13. That block is a beauty Fiona!

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  14. It's amazing...and enormous! well done you, it's going to look sooooper!

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  15. Trudi will be very pleased with these!

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