Triple Play: 3 Flying Geese Projects with Jenny, Natalie & Misty of Missouri Star (Video Tutorial)

[Music] hi everybody its Triple Play week and I am Jenny from the Missouri star quilt company and I am here with and Natalie look how easy that works anyway today the topic we've chosen to teach you about today is flying geese or many gooses or whatever you know whenever you want to do but we each have a project and we've each done the geese a different way and so we hope this gives you lots of ideas and lots of new methods to learn as well so what do you say girls shall we get started let's do it yeah alright let's get started you're gonna love it so my project is called every which way but goose and those of you who are my age will get that line that reference but anyway this is my quote back here and it's just I just think it's really fun so to make this quilt I used aunt Grace's apron and I love a 30s print it's just so cute it's so happy and cheerful and it's just really fun and this one is by Judy brought thermal for Marcus fabrics you're gonna need four charm packs for this quilt plus a half a yard of a coordinating fabric because I wanted to finish out this last row with 45 blocks it makes a great quilt the quilt sizes 76 by 84 and I just you know it's just a great size and so you're also gonna need some background fabric now you're going to need four packs of five inch squares as well for that plus one yard and that yard is going to include your few extra blocks down here and this first inner border your binding is three quarters of a yard and your background right here look how pretty this backing is and so for this pretty backing this is a pretty big floral you're going to need five and a quarter yards and it's just it just makes this gorgeous little quilt so my method of making flying geese is using half square triangles and so I'm going to be showing you how to do that today and because you have four charm packs you're going to have four colors that are the same color and so you're gonna be able to make these long blocks like this four in a row four in a row four in a row and so for me I wanted them the same now I did lay it out and try it all scrappy and it does look cool all scrappy plus there are a ton of ways that you can lay out these flying geese so don't be afraid to with that either but to make mine what I did was I took my five inch square of color and my five inch square of white I drew a line corner-to-corner on my square and I sewed on both sides of that you're going to sew a quarter of an inch from the line on each side like this and I am going to just get my next block these are great to chain piece because you can just keep going so I've got one made here and I'm going to make two to show you how a chain piece and oh I got to draw the line here we go so to draw the line I'm just gonna take my ruler put it corner to corner and I'm just using a regular pen because I'm going to cut on that line and so you have a nice line like that we're gonna lay it on our fabric and we're gonna sew again a quarter of an inch from that line and you can mark all your squares and just do them one after another after another so you can see I'm doing this sewing down adding the next one what I'm going to do when I get all of mine on theirs I'm just gonna flip them around and I'm gonna sew the other sides so just like that you'll have your whole bunch of them all done and we're gonna just plop these apart and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take my little ruler and I'm going to trim on that line and you're gonna get to half square triangles from each each set you do so you'll get two so let's go press those open now move this out of the way right here get my little blocks over here we're gonna be squaring these two four and a half so you want to press them if you're using the block lock ruler or a square ruler with a a forty-five line you'll want to press them open if you're using the clearly perfect slotted trimmer you will want to leave them closed and measure them from there so right here we are going to just set that seam and roll it back do it to all of these and today I'm going to be using the block lock ruler to square mine there are lots of ways to square Equipe lock find one that works well for you all right so now with a block lock I'm gonna put this on here I'm going to find the four and a half inch mark and slide that down like that oh that's four oh I almost cut it at the four four and a half here we go slide it up I was looking at it I'm just thinking that looks pretty small so we're coming up here to four and a half and we're just going to cut both sides like this now the benefit of squaring your blocks is that they will all fit together perfectly and you won't have any stress sewing them together so four and a half and some of them look there's very little waste on this one you just never know with the way I sew all right here we go trim and trim and what I'm doing when I Square these let me just show you real quick here so I'm making sure this this ruler has a little an indent right here we're going to Snug it right up to that seam line my I'm going to match my lines out here on the bottom to the four and a half and if they don't come perfectly I see how this one sticks over a little bit if they're not perfect then what I'll do is I'll trim this side like this and then I'm going to flip this around and trim the other side as well and you want to make sure that your your little logo if you press to the dark side your little logo will always be on your background fabric so that's how that works for me and then we're just going to trim this off over here and then we have these all done now you're gonna want four sets of these and I happen to have three sets with me but you'll want four to make the whole block up there and the one block we're going to sew together so the colors come together like this we're going to sew everyone together so the colors come together and we are going to make a set of four like this one two three four and I know I only have three but you're going to do four so it can it can go like this one two three four and then this next one how you do this one is you're just going to flip these around and you're going to put your colors together so we've got one just like this two three and then you will again have an additional fourth one on here and you just sew them together just like that so let's look at the quilt and see what I did so on this one right here this first set right here is going up and it's color together the next set is white together but going down and it's up down up down like this and then the second row I just staggered that so I started with the white in and the color in is the next one but it's going down so it's just the opposite of what I did so you'll just have to look at the picture kind of to follow along with that comes together pretty easy I kind of put I sewed these four pieces together and then I sewed them together in rows and the rows are very easy because they want the rows all the same it's up down up up down all the way across and let's see how many we have here one two three four five six seven eight nine of these across and then we have one two three four five rows so that's how I assembled my quilt and my rows then I put a little two and a half inch border around the outside I didn't want to put a another big floral border and one of the reasons is that it looks it has a little bit more of a modern feel to me when you use the thirties fabric and you kind of just put a plain border on there and I like that look so little border little two and a half inch binding and it just came together so cute so this is a super easy project it's a great project if you want to wrap it up and it's a great project if you just you know you have your leftovers and that sort of thing so now let's see what Misty's got for us all right I had so much fun making these this flying geese project it's one of my favorite blocks I love how simple and modern they always look and for my quilt I used this beautiful kay florals rainbow by Kay Fassett for free spirit fabrics to make this quilt you're going to need four packages of print squares and four packages of background as well as an additional yard and a half of background fabric and that includes your inner border and then you're gonna need another yard and a half for this outer border that you see here and that's a six inch border so to make this block it's really simple and the first part is done exactly like Jenny showed you so we use two five inch squares one of print one of dark draw a line corner to corner so on either side and cut in half square root of four and a half and we put it together into our flying geese and that makes this part of our block right here so I've got that ready to go so for our second flying geese we're just going to take one of our five inch print squares and we're going to cut it in half so we're going to cut it in half and then we're going to go ahead and cut a half inch off of one off of one side so that'll be off of both of those pieces just like so and then we'll have two pieces that measure two and a half by four and a half and I've got some here and you can see this is what we're aiming for so I'm going to take two two-and-a-half inch squares and I've drawn the line on both of these and we're going to lay these here and so right on that line then we're gonna trim this off we're gonna press that back whoa oh here it is so we'll add our other square to the other side I want to make sure that it Criss crosses with that first piece that we put on and that is why we cut it down to four and a half because then we'll have enough overlap and we won't lose our point go ahead and turn that one off as well and roll it back and we're going to make two of those and then we're going to orient them just like this and sew these together so we'll lay those right sides together so those with a quarter inch seam then we can press this back and then that's gonna go in our block right here and now we're gonna make our small flying geese which you can see here on our finished block so we're gonna start by cutting down our five inch squares in fourths so in half and in half again so that we have two and a half inch squares that we're working with and I've got one here all ready to go but I wanted you to know where I got it so we're gonna lay a white square on top of it and we're going to draw a line and sew right on that line so I have one already sewn here you can see just like that I've sewn corner to corner and we're gonna trim off the excess and that's our waste and then we're gonna press this back then we're gonna take another two and a half inch white square and we're going to place this on top and we're going to draw a line again corner to corner but we're going to make sure that when we draw the line it's going down the middle of this half square triangle that we're putting it with so we're going to draw this direction like so make sure it doesn't slip and then we're going to sew a quarter inch on either side of that line I've gone ahead and done that here and so now I'm just going to cut these in half and now you can see by doing that I get this little flying geese that's kind of offset a little bit I don't know how to how to describe it but we're gonna press this back and then we're going to square these two two inches so we'll square these two two and then we're going to add a one and a half by two inch piece just like this and we're going to sew them together in a strip and we're going to add it to a three by four and a half inch strip and so we'll sew these together and then press and then all the components for our block are ready to go and you can see that I've got four sewn together here and I did keep all of my colors together this looks really cute all scrappy as well but I loved the idea of kind of working the rainbow around in a circle with the geese so I took four blocks that all had the same color and I just rotated them around like this so that my geese were spinning whoops nope did it the wrong way this way this way is right my little geese meet together in the middle like that so that they're spinning around and you get all of this movement with your block and then I put four of the same color together and I did red yellow green and blue around the quilt and so it is this is actually your full block so you have one two three four blocks across and floor box down like I said it measures 79 by 79 and I called it gaggle of geese and so up next is Natalie I am so excited to show you the quilt that I made using flying geese I called it west wind because I thought that all these little geese looked like a weather vane that you sometimes see on the top of the house and they spin all around with the little arrows and I thought it was really cute I'm using a fabric line called shadow play it's actually custom put together for Missouri star it's by Maywood studios and the quilt is 53 by 63 you need one charm pack of color for all these little flying geese you need two yards two and a quarter yards solid for your background and you need a yard and a quarter for your border this is I added a six inch border because it's it's kind of a little quilt I think if you did another charm pack you'd get a great big quilt and that would be amazing and beautiful and once you see how easy it is you will be excited to make more of these blocks because it is really fun okay so I have a completely different method there's so many ways to make flying geese and I'm going to show you a different method that I think people have seen it's it not brand-new I didn't come up with it but we rarely use it here at Missouri star and I think sometimes it seems a little bit intimidating because it's not it's not just a half square triangle and it it it looks a little funny you'll you'll see what I mean all right so you're gonna take one charm pack and we're going to end up getting four flying geese from this one charm pack so what we're gonna do we use from your background you're gonna cut little squares of white that are 2 and 3/4 and you're going to draw the line and what we're gonna do is line them up diagonally on this charm square and they are gonna overlap by roughly like a half inch square you'll but you can see that I don't know I think yeah it overlaps by a half an inch you can pin these if you're worried it wasn't too difficult because it's such a small space to keep them together but you're gonna sew on either side of the line and I will do that just right now you're gonna sew right through that space where they overlap it's no big deal don't worry about it so I flip that around and keep going [Applause] okay so here's where it gets fun so we're going to cut these apart right on that line that we drew corner to corner and then you end up with these two pieces that have these little these little triangles we're gonna flip them back and press them this one as well and if you if you look closely you can still see there's a little bit of overlap here in this in this section see how these still overlap what that does is that gives you that space for the for the peak of the flying geese alright so then you take an additional square two and three quarters again we're gonna draw a line I'll just go ahead and do two real quick oh that didn't didn't draw let me do it again pen facing straight down alright then this one so this kind of looks like a heart or like a cat face or something I think they're kind of funky looking but then what you're going to do is you're going to add this to this bottom this this square with a line drawn to the bottom corner and you're going to sew again on either side of the line that will create two flying geese it's kind of magical alright so I'm going to sew both of these so you can see how these come together make sure that lines up in the corner [Applause] okay all right now I've got these two done I'm gonna cut them apart right on that line and we end up with four flying geese from one charm square which i think is pretty darn cool all right so these flying geese though they end up being a little bit different size than then your normal normal eying geese that you've seen today have ended up being four and a half and these ones end up being two and a quarter by four and the reason that I did that is because I wanted to stack two together and then have them come out to a four inch square so that I could put them together in basically a 9-patch construction method so what I did and this is this is a kind of kind of a way that I like to make my tools work for me so this flying geese block lock tool is super fun it has it has the little cutouts so I can push it up in to the in to the point and make sure that I have a quarter of an inch between the the colored peak right here and the edge of the fabric so all I did was line that up and trimmed off the very top now most of these you're just shaving a tiny bit but this is how I made sure after I mean obviously it's easier to trim them after they're pressed so let's do that real quick but I want to show you this because it's it's part of how I squared things up and I think that it might be helpful to some of you to note that you can you can use tools even if it's not a hundred percent the way they were designed or completely perfect so all I'm doing is getting this straight top and making sure that my peak is right in the center and this assisted me quite a bit in in squaring up later so once these are done then I take my squaring tool I can't use a block lock because it's a flying geese so I'm not going to use this tool but this one has the 45 degree angle and I'm going for a foreign I mean a four by two and a quarter so I flip this upside down and I lined up my my 45 on this line so now when you're looking at it you can see we've got a four inch line here and we've got our our two and a quarter so we're gonna pull this forward we're gonna make sure that that line lines up with that one this is our two and a quarter line so I'm keeping that nice and square and then you can see on your ruler this corner is going to be accurate because you have your 45 this corner you want to watch and make sure that the four line lines up with the seam line of your geese and that is how you square it to make sure that your point is in the middle and your sides are going to come out with proper proper points as opposed to it getting like crooked or having one side that's fatter than the other so the this is how you would line that up all right so I've checked I've checked to make sure everything's good my 45 lines up with my seam I've got my quarter inch up here I'm going to cut off the bottom there and then I'm going to flip it around and all I'm gonna do is get this last side so I check to make sure still my these little side I don't know what to call them the little diagonal seams at the bottom they are still lining up with the edges of the four inch grid line on the ruler and we check to make sure yes we still have a quarter inch between the peak and the edge of our block so once you have all of your flying geese squared up to two and a quarter by four then we're going to start laying out our blocks so we can sew everything together so what I did is I put all of my light flying geese in the middle and the dark ones on the outside and then you have four inch blocks in your corners and in your Center so like this this one goes here these guys point in two more just like that all right so I do have one tip for you and as I sold my little flying geese together I stacked them like this and then the seam that I'm gonna sew is this seam so you'll flip it over so your light one is on top and do you see this little crisscross of seams right here if you make sure that your seam line stays to the right of that crisscross you will not lose that point so that's one thing that you can remember as you're sewing along but we're gonna sew all of these little ones together and I've got a I've got a finished block for you it looks just like this easy peasy goes together like a nine patch and I ended up with four by five yep one two three four by one two three four five and you can see on here the the there's a couple where this one is blue and green and this one is pink and red but mostly they're gradiated you know a light shade in a dark shade and I think it looks so cute I just love it I love how it came together and I hope that you enjoy it as well so what do you think girls have we taught them all the ways of the flying geese yeah we've got haven't we yeah there's probably more out there to learn oh there probably is anyway we hope you enjoyed this triple play on the flying geese and all of our different methods and we'll see you next time from the Missouri star quilt company see you later guys [Music]

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Length: 28min 1sec (1681 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020