I have never really done any traditional quilting but there are several blocks and combinations that I like so with this fun guitar fabric I decided to have a go with making some "flying geese". I found a tutorial for five different ways to make flying geese and one of them use a few squares to make four with no waste. I checked it out and decided it would be worth a try. Here is
another site that has instructions for the no waste flying geese which makes four.
This link will bring you to a page where there is a chart of sizes and what size you need to cut your squares. I made mine 2" x 4" using one 5.25" square of the blue guitar fabric and and four 2 7/8" squares of gray fabric (two of one pattern and two of another). It worked out so well!! I have never done this before and I got them very near perfect. Great tutorial!! I sewed them all together to make a strip and then included the strip into a bag I was creating using a QAYG method. I made up the handles and then sewed them into the top seam with extra stitching to make a good solid connection. I prepped strips in blues, grays and blacks using what I had. It worked out really well. I had planned to have the turn around at the bottom but I forgot so it was added on the back of my bag where I overlapped the two two strips over the guitar fabric and over stitched. Check out my next post for the finished bag!! Therese
