Quilt in a Day Flying Geese

About twenty years ago Eleanor Burns came out with one of her Quilt In A Day books.  This one was Flying Geese.  I loved it. I purchased the book. I found fabric and began a king-sized quilt for my sister.  At the time I planned to make a comforter cover.

FAST FORWARD, and I do mean fast.  The time has flown.  The flying geese have not.  SO, when I began the Young Women Personal Progress 12-Week Finish Up program here in South Carolina last fall, I thought it was time to get that flying geese project finished.

As it turns out, when I looked at what I had previously done, I was embarrassed at the fabric choices.  Well, they were the best I could do at the time, but times change.  So, I found some fabric that I love and that I think my sister will love, and started again.  We are down to the wire.

In the interest of time, I have decided, almost certainly, to make a lap blanket.  It will depend on what the top looks like when I put it together.  If it is nasty, I won't do it.

So far, here are some pictures of where we are:

This is the first cut after the first marking and stitching.  As I am writing this, I have put together the blocks and done the second stitching on half of the blocks (I was up past midnight last night because I could not sleep...plus I was working on cleaning off my hard disk so I can make iCloud happy with me again.  (ALSO not just iCloud...I have stored Gigabytes of good stuff for ever so long and have not looked at it in years.  Time to make a change...)

This picture shows the first geese and sky squares stitched and ready to cut, with some of them cut.

When all this stitching is done, I have another cut to make then the geese need to be squared up, lined up, stitched together in strips, then strips stitched together.  The question is whether I will put in sashing or just let them fly happily together side by side.  I have to see if it looks okay to me...


UPDATE:  The above was written months ago.  I sewed together then ripped out this quilt SO MANY times because it was just awful.  It is still pretty bad but it is going to go to its new home anyway.  It is time.

As you can see, at the point I took this picture I still had not removed the safety pins from each goose.  Each of the vertical seams was hand-sewn with navy blue embroidery floss.  The "binding" was hand sewn also with embroidery floss and did not entirely cover the outer border sashing.  The whole thing looks rather wonky but I think it will serve its purpose as a throw for an evening of warmth on the living room couch. 

It is finished and going to its new home tomorrow!  For sure.  No more renovations.