PICK SOME LARGER SCALE PRINTS FOR FUSSY CUTTING THE CENTRES OF THE BLOCKS
CUTTING OUT
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From the background fabric cut:
■ Thirty nine (39) 25/ 8in x WOF strips. Subcut into five hundred and seventy six (576) 25/ 8in squares.
■ Four (4) 4in x WOF strips. Subcut into one hundred and thirty two (132)
1¼in x 4in rectangles.
■ Five (5) 4¾in x WOF strips. Subcut four
(4) of the strips into one hundred and thirty two (132) 1¼in x 4¾in rectangles. Subcut the remaining strip into twelve
(12) 1¼in x 4¾in rectangles and twelve
(12) 1¼in x 4in rectangles.
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From Fabric A cut:
■ Five (5) 4¾in x WOF strips. Subcut into thirty six (36) 4¾in squares. Nicole fussy cut her squares, centering them on point.
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From Fabric B cut:
■ Thirty six (36) 25/ 8in x WOF strips. Subcut into two hundred and eighty eight (288) 25/ 8in x 4¾in rectangles.
■ Three (3) 5½in x WOF strips. Subcut into sixteen (16) 5½in squares. Subcut each square diagonally in both directions to get four (4) Corner Triangles from each.
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From Fabric C cut:
■ Three (3) 5½in x WOF strips. Subcut into twenty (20) 5½in squares. Subcut each square diagonally in both directions to make four (4) Corner Triangles from each.
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From each Fabric D colour cut:
■ Two (2) 5¼in x WOF strips. Subcut ten
(10) 5¼in squares from each of two colours and sixteen (16) 5¼in squares from the third colour. Subcut each
square diagonally in both directions to make four (4) Inset Triangles from each.
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From the binding fabric cut:
■ Eight (8) 2½in x WOF strips. 7 8in
Arrange a background 25/ square at one end of a Fabric B 25/ 8in x 4¾in rectangle, RST. Draw a line from corner to corner on the back of the square and sew along the line. Trim with a ¼in seam allowance and press (Figs A and B). Repeat on the opposite corner to make one Flying Geese unit (Fig C).
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Repeat step 7 for a total of two hundred and eighty eight Flying Geese units. Sew all your Flying Geese units together in pairs, as shown (Fig D).
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Take a Fabric C Corner Triangle and sew to the top of one of your Flying Geese blocks (Fig E). Press open (Fig F). Repeat with eighty Flying Geese blocks. Sew the Fabric B corner triangles to the remaining sixty four Flying Geese blocks. Set aside forty of the Flying Geese with Fabric C corners and thirty two of the Flying Geese with Fabric B triangles.
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Sew one complete Flying Geese block to the side of one of your Fabric A
4¾in squares. Join a second Flying Geese block to the other side (Fig G). Repeat for a total of thirty six of these units, making twelve units with two Fabric C triangles, eight units with two Fabric B triangles and sixteen with one Fabric B and one Fabric C triangle, referring to the Layout Diagram for placement of the triangles.
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Sew a background 1¼in x 4¾in piece to either side of the remaining seventy two Flying Geese blocks (Fig H). Press open (Fig I).
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With RST, sew one of your background
1¼in x 4in rectangles to the side of one of your Inset Triangles (Fig J). Press the seam towards the background (Fig K). Repeat for the remaining Inset Triangles, sewing seventy two with the strip on the left and seventy two with the strip on the right. If using multiple colours, lay out the inset triangles in the position they’ll be sitting in the block (Fig L) to place the strips correctly.
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Sew two complete Inset Triangles to either side of your remaining Flying Geese blocks (Fig M). Press seams away from the Flying Geese. Join these either