I do love doing embroidery although I'm not great at it, it is something I love to do in front of the TV or while in the car traveling. So I thought I would revisit one of my older patterns for Halloween and show it to you. It's a sweet haunted house surrounded by a spooky border of 'Boo!' and candy corn. Imagine the little ghouls and goblins that go trick or treating here!
After I got the center embroidered I decided to make a no-waste flying geese border all the way around it.... so here's how I did it.... it's not a new technique, and I certainly can't take credit for it. But it sure made making tiny flying geese blocks easy and accurate to do! I used 3 fat quarters from Thimbleberries to do my block. Which I found in my 'stash', I bet you have some Halloween fabric you could use too!
I began by cutting 32 ~ 1 7/8" black squares and 8 ~ 3 1/4" orange squares
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Lay two black squares on one orange square right sides together and draw a diagonal line from corner to corner, you will sew a 1/4" scant seam on each side of the diagonal line. (I have the diagonal marked here)
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Sewing on the lines....
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Then cut apart....
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Iron... to the dark side....
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Then lay a black square on your triangle section, again mark 1/4" seam on each side of the diagonal.
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I have a stack of them to do to make a border!
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Sew on the 1/4" seam line....
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Cut apart....
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iron... iron to the dark side....this will make 1" x 2" flying geese (1 1/2" x 2 1/2")
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Then I trim my embroidery piece down ….
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8 flying geese blocks will form the border on each side....
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I fussy cut the corner blocks for the border.
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Border is all pieced and the block is now ready to quilt.
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All quilted
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Sewing on the binding....
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It's time to welcome the Trick or Treaters!!
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I hope that you enjoy my little tutorial on how to make flying geese. It's a great technique and one that can be used for a variety of projects that call for flying geese.
Happy Halloween!
Cindy and Belvedere
Cindy, it's a great stitchery, and I love the addition of the flying geese around it! I'm surprised you didn't save that for Tuesday. =)
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