Earlier this year I began a journey of using up some of my scrap fabrics because they would no longer fit in my cubby bins - especially the white/beige bin full of background fabrics. So, when I saw a tutorial on the one-seam flying geese block on Instagram, I decided I had to try it using up some of those print background fabrics.
I decided to use various scraps of pink fabrics for the geese portion of the block, hoping that using one color family in the geese would help bring all the random print fabrics together. this experiment in using up these scraps could turn out great or turn out to be a real disaster. Either way, it would be way scrappier than most people like.
I enjoyed making the flying geese blocks, but I'm glad I decided to keep it at a baby-quilt size - or it may have ended up in the UFO pile!
Making the geese with this technique left me with open-sided flying geese which proved to be a challenge when it came time to quilt it. I ended up using a P2P curved line and just clicking along the points of the block, which avoided quilting across the open-sided geese. The quilting ended up really giving the quilt a lot of dimension, which I really like.
I am absolutely in love with the finished quilt. It's scrappy, but not overbearing and using the pinks in the geese pulled it all together.
And after the three scrappy baby quilts I've made this year, I'm happy to announce that I have finally reduced that bin of white/beige fabrics!
Happy Quilting!
~Sharla
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