Cook Your Goose Quilt Mystery

The New Years Day Quilt Mystery starts Jan 1, 2023 at 10AM Eastern. I’ve decided to start a series on How To Make Flying Geese blocks, starting with this post. This mystery quilt is designed to show you the first two different ways to make perfect flying geese blocks.The fabric requirements to make it larger are at the bottom of this page.

To print this clue, use the green Print Friendly button at the bottom of this page. And remember: anyone who sends me a picture of any completed clue during the mystery will automatically get a copy of the complete pattern when we are done. Plus, I have some donated door prizes this time, too!

One caveat: I have already made this quilt, so most of the illustrations will be graphics.

Cook Your Goose Quilt Mystery
Fabric Requirements for the 64″ x 76″ Size:

These are the fabrics in the quilt that I made. Use your own colors and fabrics, of course.

• 1/ 2 yard light (the lt tan in the picture below)
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• 2/3 yard light medium (the lt pink in the picture below)
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• 1-1/4 yard medium (the dark pink in the picture below)
  This includes the binding. If you are going to make the binding a different color, you will only need
  2/3 yard.
  It also includes 6″ for an optional flange, which is a 1″ folded strip inserted between the borders as a three-dimensional accent. You can eliminate that if you are low on fabric.
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• 1 yard dark (the chocolate in the picture below)
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• 2 yards background (shown below)
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• 1 yard border (large scale print below)
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To make the quilt larger (80″ x 90″), you will need an additional 5/8 yard light, 5/8 yard light medium, 5/8 yard medium, 3/4 yd dark, 1 yard of background and 1/8 yard border.

Helpful but not required:

□ a rotating cutting board
□ a Lazy Girl NoMath ruler
□ a small Quilt-in-a-day Flying Geese Ruler
□ a Creative Grid Ultimate Flying Geese Tool
□ sharp pins (applique or patchwork)
□ Best Press

Come back at 9AM Eastern on 12/31/22 for the first of seven clues.

Don’t forget that anyone who sends me a picture of any step in this mystery before 1/3/23 will receive a copy of the final pattern. Send your pictures to moc.liamgobfsctd-55c8d1@sngisednoomebeohp

Fabric Requirements
Cutting Instructions (clue available 12/31 at 9AM Eastern)
The Flying Geese for Block One (clue available 1/1/23 at 9AM Eastern)
The Flying Geese for Block Two (clue available 1/1/23 at 10AM Eastern)
More Blocks (clue available 1/1/23 at 11AM Eastern)
Even More Blocks (clue available 1/1/23 at noon Eastern
The Last Quilt Block (clue available 1/1/23 at 1PM Eastern
Borders (clue available 1/1/23 at 2PM Eastern)
The Final Frontier (clue available 1/1/23 at 3PM Eastern
Picture Page

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