Saturday, August 08, 2009

Variations on Mosaic 3

I discovered a great new way of making a flying geese block! The instructions are on the Friday Block Party on my sidebar but you can find it here. I posted the original block (Mosaic 3)yesterday. Afterwards, I started thinking about other blocks I could make using this method. I wanted to do a Dutchman's Puzzle, but this is how it turned out. But I was really tired yesterday!

Then while lying in bed this morning, I began thinking about the block and remembered that the'geese' parts all have to be a colour and the rest of the pieces are background. So I went to my sewing machine and made this one. This is Dutchman's Puzzle!

I learned to do this block in my first quilt course, but I hated it. The points would not line up in the centre and my block was really wonky. I made that first quilt without this block. Now that I have found this new method , I think I could actually see myself making a whole quilt using this pattern. Now I just have to find the time.........

6 comments:

Pat said...

I like them done both ways...with the geese being solid and also with tme not being solid. Nice job!

the dutch purple rabbit said...

it's a really nice block and i can see how you can make a beautiful quilt out of it.
if i self had the time i now wath i was doing.

nynke

*karendianne. said...

What a fun post, so cute. I love the way you really learned to do this and by the way, I do have a quilt in this pattern and it came out really well. It's just taking me forever to quilt it!

Opal said...

they're both lovely, but the blue and yellow combo is my favorite. :)

if you find any of that extra time, please let me know! i've been scavenging for some for a few weeks now. ;-)

Librarynan said...

Flying Geese is one of my favorite patterns! How is it hat we have even LESS time now that we're retired??!!LOL

Gene Black said...

I actually like the "mistake" block in red. It has a lovely abstract feel.