Category: New Ideas

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. Be sure to see the other designers blocks at the bottom of this page.

To print this page, go to the 3D Flying Geese Quilt Blocks page and use the green Print Friendly button at the bottom, just above the comments. If that doesn’t work, try pressing down the CNTRL button and the P button at the same time. Or the COMMAND button and the P button if you are on a Mac. That should bring up the printer dialog.

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

Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block

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.

Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block

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.

Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block

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.

Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block
Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block

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.

Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block
Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block
Steps in Making a Three Dimensional Flying Goose Quilt Block

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:

Tutorial for making one-seam flying geese

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

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