It’s For the Birds – 3D Flying Geese Quilt Blocks

(Also known as Dimensional Flying Geese)

It’s for the Birds Blog Hop! Of course I had to show you how to make dimensional Flying Geese Quilt Blocks that look like they can take off at any moment.

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How to Make A Three Dimensional Flying Goose Block

These pictures are taken from the Pumpkin Spice Latte Mystery. You can use whatever colors you like, of course.

Assemble:

(8) Red 3″ x 3″ squares
(8) Gold 3″ x 3″ squares
(16) Green 3″ x 3″ squares
(16) Background 3″ x 5-1/2″ rectangles

Place a 3″ x 3″ Green square right side up on your sewing table. Fold a Background rectangle wrong sides together and place it on top of the square, aligning the cut edges.

It will not cover the entire square because a 5-1/2″ long rectangle folded in half is only 2-3/4″ square.  The fold should be about 1/4″ away from the top of the square.

Place a 3″ x 3″ Red square on top of the two pieces, right sides together, again aligning the cut edges.  Your background square be the center of the sandwich.  Using a 1/4″ seam, sew along the SIDE of the all layers as shown.

Open up your sandwich and lay the two sides flat.  Your middle background piece will be free-standing.  Gently pull both sides of the background piece to the edges of the two sides. 

Do you see the 3D Flying Geese Quilt Block?

Stay stitch about 1/8″ from the edge, finger pressing the seams open.

My video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvXUvKIzYZY&t=66s

but I explain the other three dimensional elements first.  If you would rather see JUST the one-seam dimensional elements, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWpJrZZrrjM and stop at the one-minute mark.

Here’s one I did for Mardi Gras last year:

That tutorial, with a free Geese in Flight pattern is at https://scrapdash.com/mardi-gras-geese/

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