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Ending / Starting with a bang – New Years Geese Migration

Well, crafting this fall has been at a minimum.  Work has taken up most of my time and I really haven’t had much of a drive to work on anything.

As far progressed into Winter I really had to want to do much. But it’s a new year and I am pushing myself down to that room to give some of these unfinished project some attention.

So – being that is the goal, I started this year off with a bang and did a Flying Geese block for one of my more complex quilt tops – Gravity.  So, this just happened – I didnt think I made that more than 2 years ago – I was wrong, I made that in August 2016 – 5+ years ago. Oh by, now I know I really have to get working on these things.

So I have been thinking about this one for a long time, how to pay tribute to the Gravity quilt with a Geese Migration block.  I pulled out the box with all the left over pieces and started laying them out, and laying them out and laying them out. Moving, changing – had to walk away quite a few times.

Then, I get it all together and look at it – it’s backwards!!! The geese were on the wrong side – so me and “Jack” spent some time together today too.  A little bit of everything was going on in that room today.

It’s flashy, lots of angels, but all in all I love how it turned out.

So here it is – the first of 2022, the last of 2021 all rolled up into 1 Geese Migration block.

 

Quilt that this block is representing:

9 down, 9 to go

So what do you do when it’s 95 degrees outside, with a heat index of over 105 – well, if you’re me, you stay inside!

I got 6 blocks done today, which puts me at the 1/2 way point. The good, some of the diamonds are completely done – I won’t have to do another of that layout, the bad point, there are some I have not done yet!!!!

purples bluesThese aren’t perfect, but neither is an actual gem, so I feel pretty good with how they are turning out!

 

3 of 18 done!

Well, finally got to work on this some more – and I’ve got 3 done – Orange & Yellow.

Orange-Yellow DiamondsThings I have learned doing these 3 “blocks”:

  • Inside seems stink
  • triangles stink
  • the term “Square Up” is an oxymoron statement with this pattern
  • I have another whole set of these to do in another color – Yippee!!!