Quilts from the New York Sewer

Quilts from the New York Sewer!
August 2001 Flying Geese a L'Orange avec Cranberries I have wanted to make a flying geese quilt for a long time, and although I had so many other quilts in my head, I saw these fabrics and knew I wanted to make a flying geese quilt from them. It started out with the blue vine fabric, by South Seas Imports, and the cranberry Quilter's Suede by Benartex. I like 2-color quilts, but sometimes they need a little pizazz. I decided to add a smashing little border of tangerine-y orange fabric, whose manufacturer escapes me. Obviously the colors gave me the title for this quilt. Not all my quilts have titles, but some just adopt a name. The decision to make blue geese on a cranberry sky as opposed to cranberry geese on a blue sky was a hard one - and just because the logical choice is blue for a sky didn't help, because logic dictates that there are no cranberry geese. I decided on this combination though, and even now when I look back on my drawings, and I think it looks fine either way!!! I am using the Eleanor Burns method of quickly making 4 flying geese blocks with 2 larges squares, and her "flying geese ruler". I think this is a great way to make a bunch of geese! If you only need a few geese though, and are limited on fabric, knowing the traditional way is a necessity. This quilt is in the works as of this writing, August 4th, but is quickly moving along. I have not decided on how to quilt this quilt yet. Yahoo! I finished this quilt top August 15th, 2001! I am planning to machine quilt it, but I am waiting for my new sewing machine! Update: I got a new Brother PQ-1500 sewing machine, which is great for quilters. It makes machine quilting so much easier. I free-motion quilted this entire quilt: stippling in the vertical sashing, echo quilting in the geese, and a chevron design in the border. I used a light polyester batting - Mountain Mist Quilt Lite. I machine bound the quilt in the cranberry fabric. Here is the quilting......... And here is the quilt top layout, from EQ4.	QUICK LINKS! My Quilts Quilts Home .....Go To Next Quilt---> Squirrel Winter Wallhanging Strawberry Quilt Jacobean Wallhanging Halloween Quilt Autumn Table Runner Flags in Stars Flying Geese a L'Orange avec Cranberries Whirlygig Wallhanging Quilt Shoo Fly Mini Quilt Berry Patch Stars Lap Quilt Buckeye Beauty Lap Quilt Heart Wall Hanging Double Nine Patch and Hearts Pinwheel Baby Quilt American Flag Quilt Double Irish Chain Queen Quilt Pieced Tulip Baby Quilt Sawtooth Star Baby Quilt Weathervane Wall Hanging Pink and Green Lemoyne Star Red and Green Lemoyne Star Christmas Stockings

August 2001

Flying Geese a L'Orange avec Cranberries

I have wanted to make a flying geese quilt for a long time, and although I had so many other quilts in my head, I saw these fabrics and knew I wanted to make a flying geese quilt from them. It started out with the blue vine fabric, by South Seas Imports, and the cranberry Quilter's Suede by Benartex. I like 2-color quilts, but sometimes they need a little pizazz. I decided to add a smashing little border of tangerine-y orange fabric, whose manufacturer escapes me. Obviously the colors gave me the title for this quilt. Not all my quilts have titles, but some just adopt a name.

The decision to make blue geese on a cranberry sky as opposed to cranberry geese on a blue sky was a hard one - and just because the logical choice is blue for a sky didn't help, because logic dictates that there are no cranberry geese. I decided on this combination though, and even now when I look back on my drawings, and I think it looks fine either way!!!

I am using the Eleanor Burns method of quickly making 4 flying geese blocks with 2 larges squares, and her "flying geese ruler". I think this is a great way to make a bunch of geese! If you only need a few geese though, and are limited on fabric, knowing the traditional way is a necessity.

This quilt is in the works as of this writing, August 4th, but is quickly moving along. I have not decided on how to quilt this quilt yet.

Yahoo! I finished this quilt top August 15th, 2001! I am planning to machine quilt it, but I am waiting for my new sewing machine!

Update: I got a new Brother PQ-1500 sewing machine, which is great for quilters. It makes machine quilting so much easier. I free-motion quilted this entire quilt: stippling in the vertical sashing, echo quilting in the geese, and a chevron design in the border. I used a light polyester batting - Mountain Mist Quilt Lite. I machine bound the quilt in the cranberry fabric.

Here is the quilting......... Flying Geese Quilt
And here is the quilt top layout, from EQ4.

Quilts from the New York Sewer!

Flying Geese a L'Orange avec Cranberries

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