Class Sample Is Done!

My Sweet honey took me on a little trip to Williams Arizona to take the train to the Grand Canyon.  Of course I like to bring some handwork with me.  I worked on the binding for my Fly to the Star Class sample.  Here it is on my lab in the car.

Here it is all finished and ready to take the shop as a class sample.  I quilted it during the week and added the binding so I could do the hand stitching on the trip.  I finished it about 1/2 an hour before we arrived at our home.

I did simple quilting, in the ditch, and a 1/4 inch inside the square of the star and some of the geese.  Around the three dimensional geese I quilted the background of the blocks in a small meandering so the geese would pop.  I don't think it shows real well in the photo.  I did larger meandering in the border. You can double click on the picture to see it bigger.

Happy Stitching and Happy Halloween!

Class Sample

I offered to teach a class on different ways to make Flying Geese.  It is for newer quilters and I will also teach them how to use their rulers for cutting 45 degree angles.  I found some fabric I really liked and started thinking about a layout. 

Not my real fabrics

Of course I played with some layouts in EQ7.  I even scanned in my fabrics for a realistic look.  Here is one of my first ideas.  The problem was I liked both of my colored fabrics and I could not decide which one to use the most.  So I was trying to go for balance of both colors.  What a mistake that was. 

First layout

This is what kind of craziness you get when you cannot decide on colors.  The next morning I woke up and had a great idea.  So after work on Monday night I did some frog stitching and made more flying geese and a star. 



Final Layout



I planed it out in EQ7 and loved it right away.  I named it Fly to the Star.  The red geese I am just going to make a single strip hanging.  No waste here.

Here it is all basted and ready for quilting. I have five different ways to make the flying geese.  There are more ways then that but a couple of them are too strange for new quilters.  Plus I won't want to use them myself so why teach them. 

One of the fun techniques I am teaching are three dimensional.  See the rulers tucked in the folds?  Here is where I learned how to do the goose on the left. The one on the right I learned on the Dear Jane list many years ago, when I made a one inch star. 

Now to go start the quilting! 

On Sunday I also finished my Beyond the Basics EQ7 class handouts I will be teaching on the 5th.  I have been a busy girl!

Happy Stitching!