Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Goose of Another Colour

These month's block inspired me to pull out some scrappy swap Flying Geese units and put them together into blocks like ours. The FG units are 3 by 6 inches (finished); my blocks are 9 inches (finished size).

I mostly put them together into monochromatic blocks with light-medium-dark flying geese triplets. It was fun putting them together because the swap was on of those "anything goes" kind of things and I had all kinds of fabrics represented. I made a few extra geese, including some from some of the jewel tone fabrics that were still on my work table. I added the same tan fabric strips to all my blocks. As you can see the look is completely different . . . but still pretty interesting (or at least, I think so ;-)

I haven't decided yet on borders. In my mind, I'm flip-flopping between more scrappiness in a pieced border, a simple darker fabric frame, or a combination of both. I'll let you know how it turns out . . . the cats just want me to decide and stop using THEIR bed as a design wall and to put the flannel quilt back on it so they can crawl under it and have a warm, cuddly cat nap ;-)

4 comments:

  1. I seriously love these blocks! I like jewel tones, but I am a very traditional quilter and the scrappier the better I say! These are great!

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  2. Thank you. I think sometimes we forget that even if we don't like the colorway for the lotto, the block might be good for something else in another color . . . or if the fates are unkind and we don't win, we could make some more blocks for ourselves from scraps pretty quickly.

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  3. I also love what you've done with these blocks! It's subtle and beautiful!
    Ginny

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  4. Oh Sophie you are just so talented! I love the scrappy geese and how you "tamed" them with the tan. I can't wait to see how you finished it!

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