Advent Advent-ure

[Lowena]

@Iminei the flying geese method is very good indeed but mine came out quite a bit bigger than they ought to have done :thinking:

[Iminei]

Trim down, Dear Lowena, Trim down! (sung to theres a hole in my bucket dear liza)

Just make sure you have the 1/4" between the point of the goose and the edge.

[Lowena]

It was tooooo big to trim down dear Imi

[Iminei]

Bollockers ... How can it be too big ...

honestly Lowena I despair and as I no longer have anyone or thing to look after may well be on my way up to yours to teach you a lesson .... in trimming blocks down!!!!

[Deafoldbat]

to teach you a lesson .... in trimming blocks down!!!!

@Lowena @Iminei And just thank your stars I'm not appearing on the broomstick to teach you (both?) how to make them right first time - no trimming required!

(Though actually, I do check the sizes as I go, boring but worth it in the long run... I learnt this the hard way )

[Iminei]

@Deafoldbat @BrendaP


Got a problem

Block 3-  Take 3 1/2" Red square and frame with a 4 1/2 mid square cut in 4 .

My Red square is 3" finished so thats right  but I cant get 1/4" from all the points for seam allowance to make a 4 1/4" finished SiS !!! Can anyone please  advise as soon as possible, I dont want to waste the entire day.....

Pic 1 shows 3" centre from 3 1/2" cut Pic 2 shows inability to get a 4 1/4" SiS

Linky to album

[Kad]

The triangles for the outer square should be cut from a 3 3/4" square piece rather than a 3 1/2" square piece x

[Iminei]

the red was a 3 1/2" sq cut ... the pale grey was a 4 1/2" sq cut across both diagonals

The finished size of the inner sq is now 3" ... as it would be when the cut size was 3 1/2"

I think the pale grey should've been cut from a 4 1/4" sq instead ... (my eyesight .. my bad)  but that doesnt solve the problem as its the inner sqs final measurement that is the vital one I think ???

[BrendaP]

@iminie  QSTs cut from a 4.25" x 4.25" should fit around a 3" x 3" centre square. BUT that means that the outside edges will all be cut in the bias.  You will probably do much better to cut HSTs from two 3" x 3" squares.

[BrendaP]

Flying Geese the weird way

Actually I think that is the best way of doing them, the others are wasteful!
If cutting, and sewing, is accurate you shouldn't need to trim to size!

[Iminei]

Sorted ... measurements, 4 1/4" is FINISHED size ... Thank you for your help 

[BrendaP]

Sorted ... measurements, 4 1/4" is FINISHED size ...

So with the seam allowances still on the block should be 4 3/4"

[Iminei]

Yup I was a prat! ... Anyhoo it went together perfectly after that ... two more blocks done ...
Im only 2 behind now

[Deafoldbat]

Why do people make making Flying Geese so complicated? Cut your QSTs, cut your HSTs and sew them together - not that difficult surely.

Similarly, putting triangles round a square - use HSTs and you get nice straight grain edges. If you want to know what size HSTs to cut use Pythagoras - that's why you had to learn it at school.

We still haven't got that finger wagging emoji....

[Iminei]

I seriously cant remember much of my school learning ... Pythagoras .. I think not!