My admiration of Alison Glass fabric continues, and after working with it for the Feathers QAL I decided to make some geese. There is an awesome pattern on her website that I may one day try but for this effort I stayed relatively small (about 31 inches square).
I started by making one of my favorite patterns, A Circle of Geese. This pattern is available from http://www.piecebynumber.com/circleofgeese.htm. I then created some additional geese in different sizes.
And then I debated what to do and turned to my friends on Instagram who as always helped me out in terms of next steps – I debated putting feathers or arrows as a border, but then decided that I would use the column fabric I had and frame the geese – the folks on IG are so inspirational for me and so full of great ideas. I love having other quilters to turn to for input.
Once I had that done, I created a backing using some leftover pieces.
And finally, some straight line diagonal quilting, a binding (always a dilemma to me – again my IG friends helped me out) and a label and voila!
I think it came out super! A couple lessons learned during this process:
(1) Do not wear headphones when you baste and quilt – you will not hear the crinkling of the paper you apparently forgot to tear off the circle of geese. Well, gives new meaning to the ‘crinkly love’ of a quilt!
(2) When you piece a backing and believe you have it perfectly lined up, forget it. I’ve done this more than once! The back gets just a little off kilter. It still looks good.
And now I am debating what to do with it. I certainly do not need another quilt in the quilt museum known as my house. And it isn’t really a kid’s blanket type of thing. I debated doing it as a giveaway for my IG friends but that means I have to make a decision (or let some random generator do it). And you see how I get with bindings!
So for all her help and putting up with my IG nonsense while I worked on this quilt, I randomly decided that pattinottessa gets first decline!