Circling Geese

The City Quilter University class that I am taking

on triangles is a once a month class for four months.

Our third class is next week and our assignment is a flying geese pattern.

I love paper piecing because the points come out so perfectly,

so this is a project I was ready to jump into.

I saw this pattern for geese flying in a circle over at The Sometimes Crafter

and just knew I had to try it.

There is a very good tutorial from Christina's site here.

So I started with the traditional look,

all the triangles contrasting against a constant background.

I liked it, but it wasn't really singing to me. The more I looked at it, the more I could see the seams in the piecing and how that could make a pattern too.

So I tried changing the center pieces to a contrasting fabric.

I liked that windmill look in the center and added some borders, some more flying geese strips and I had a nice little block. It is about 22" square.
I'm really not sure how I wanted to proceed with this block.


I kept looking at all those seams and thought, what if I change it up again?



So a grabbed some batiks that I had laying around just to try the color contrast. I LOVE the way this came out. The background is all yellow, the geese are the light green and the star point in the middle is a dark green.




These two blocks were made from the exact same paper piecing pattern.



Isn't amazing what a little bit of color play can do for a block?!



Can't wait to show these off to the class.