Part of the design for the Fab Little Quilt Swap 3 quilt is a ribbon of increasing flying geese. I've never tried one of these before so I went to town with pen and paper to draft it out.
I bought a Moda jelly roll of pale polka dots on rainbow solids. I didn't realize that they were gradations until I opened it up. Yay! They let me draft 27 flying geese with purple at the bottom. I wanted them to pop so I decided to use white fairy frost as the backgrounds. Of course before I started sewing I had to retrace the drawing in reverse so that it'd sew up correctly.
Here I started with a few of the flying geese. So far so good.
After a while I realized that if I had it to do over that I'd divide this ribbon up into three sections so that I wouldn't have to fight a long curl of paper. Midway into the greens section I realized that I forgot to sew the turquoise. Oops! I had to frog that section and re-sew it the right way. Also I tried to sew too much of this while I was tired and I kept making silly mistakes like letting the ends of pieces curl backwards into seams. Ugh! Don't you hate when that happens?! After a few too many mistakes I turned off the sewing machine and took a break.
Finally I got back to it this morning and worked until a little after noon when I completed the last flying geese section. Whoo-hoo! Isn't it a cool thing? Here it is next to the NY Beauty circle.
A little bit of a rest and then I'll get cracking on the background. I've decided to cut out those black/white/grey fabrics with the triangle Sizzix die cutter. Hopefully they won't take too long to sew. Then I'll split it apart for the ribbon and then reverse applique' the circle. It's starting to come together.
