Same idea as Ricky one seam flying geese... take off on idea

[ajclapp]

I guess the right word to have used was extravagant rather than wasteful. Marilyn is right about sewing the second seam on the flip & sew to give you hst's. I just wonder that designers never seem to put this idea in and come up with a border using them.

I've done a lot of this. Just can't seem to find time to write instructions for the patterns. Maybe someday.

[Margo]

Here is a great way to use both sides of a square to make HSTs: http://www.online-quilting.com/video...als/index.html

[rehak]

I made a quilt a couple of years ago using Shooting Star blocks, which are like snowball blocks except that you only do the two opposite corners and make the corner triangles bigger. I used the sew-and-flip method and used the half-square triangles from the "waste" to make a pinwheel border. It's the first quilt on my profile, called "Salad Shooter". I hope to write up a pattern some day.

Nancy

[idaho]

:wink:

[idaho]

Great quilt Nancy, and I love the fact of how you made the border from the off cuts, it works great.

[loise98]

Here is a great way to use both sides of a square to make HSTs: http://www.online-quilting.com/video...als/index.html

Margo, This link is great. I got stuck there for a while. I have a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt in que to quilt and the video on using a faced binding on hexies is great. Wow!

[idaho]

My thanks ,too, Margo !!

[idaho]

The thing is, it isn't really Ricky's block - I learnt about the one seam flying geese block from Jennie Rayment before I had even heard of TQS..... Who knows where it originated?

I know this block has been around for a long time but I was just trying to put in context of here at TQS. These blocks are very similar. .

[anne1]

I think Ricky said he learnt it from a quilter in UK when he showed us how to do it.
Anne