Has anyone any comments on the 'Square in a square' method?

And, if you sew them together before trimming them off, you have the
fiddly work done for you already! I really must do that one of these
days!! (I mean, take notice of what I say g)
..
In message
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threads writes
Hi Russ,

I have seen this method and I also thought it was very wasteful.
Leslie gave you a couple of helpful links. Flying geese are fun to
make and very little waste if any. When I trip off the extra, which
is two tiny triangles of light and dark fabric, I made miniature
quilts out of them. Then you have no waste at all!!

Piece,

Marsha in nw, Ohio

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Best Regards
pat on the hill

On Jan 20, 2:13*am, "steve" wrote:
Welcome Russ

Here is the method that I use to make flying geese. *All you have to do is
cut squares and sew them together and cut them apart again in the right way
and there is no waste at all.

This is the link to my website where I've posted two sheets of directions.http://rainbowmoose.googlepages.com/pattern_page.html

One page is the for the directions and the other page is a chart for the
sizes to cut to make several different sizes of flying geese. *Also, no
special ruler needed.

Hope this helps.

Steven
Alaska


YUP!! this is how i do them too!! it is sooooo easy and you're right,
they are accurate!!
amy in CNY

Can't help with your question, but welcome to RCTQ. Stick around.
Gen


"Russell D. Miller" wrote in message
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I'm a neophyte quilter (4 baby quilts under my belt, making new mistakes,
er, make that 'learning more with each one').

I recently saw a web video of a person using what she called the 'Square
in a square method' to make half-triangle squares and flying geese. It
looked very easy, but a bit wasteful of fabric.

Has anyone seen this before, have any comments, etc? I don't want to
spring for a book or two and a special ruler if it is not worthwhile.

Thanks everyone....

Russ

On Jan 20, 9:58 am, Patti wrote:
And, if you sew them together before trimming them off, you have the
fiddly work done for you already! I really must do that one of these
days!! (I mean, take notice of what I say g)
.
In message
,
threads writes

Hi Russ,

I have seen this method and I also thought it was very wasteful.
Leslie gave you a couple of helpful links. Flying geese are fun to
make and very little waste if any. When I trip off the extra, which
is two tiny triangles of light and dark fabric, I made miniature
quilts out of them. Then you have no waste at all!!

Piece,

Marsha in nw, Ohio

--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Yep, you are right Pat but I am just not quite that organized!! LOL

Piece,

Marsha in nw, Ohio

I want to thank everyone for the great information, and the warm welcomes.
You all are pretty nice folks.

I've bookmarked the pages you've pointed me to, and grok the methods. The
next baby quilt, which requires about 90 half square triangles for the
border, should go much easier. It's a pieced hobby horse in the center,
with a border around it. I also did one where I replaced the horse with a
sailboat.

Thanks a bunch.

Russ

"Russell D. Miller" wrote in message
. ..
I'm a neophyte quilter (4 baby quilts under my belt, making new mistakes,
er, make that 'learning more with each one').

I recently saw a web video of a person using what she called the 'Square
in a square method' to make half-triangle squares and flying geese. It
looked very easy, but a bit wasteful of fabric.

Has anyone seen this before, have any comments, etc? I don't want to
spring for a book or two and a special ruler if it is not worthwhile.

Thanks everyone....

Russ