Trying a New Technique for Making Flying Geese!

I forgot to take a picture of the first step in this process.  I learned this technique from a Youtube video -- I very rarely watch Youtube but this one intrigued me -- enough that I may purchase the formal directions (Kits by Carla.com).  The first step was to cut three strips of a background fabric (I chose white) and then two strips of the goose part.  The three strips of the background are 4 1/2 in, 4 1/2 in and 3 inches.  The goose fabric is 2 strips 3 3/4 inches wide.  She suggests you work with a 22 inch wide strip which I did.

  The order you sew them  in is 4 1/2 in background, 3 1/2 in goose, 4 1/2 in background, 3 1/2 in goose and then a 3 in strip of background.  After they are nicely sewn together (and I ironed the seams to the dark side which was contrary to her directions but worked out fine).  You then cut 3 3/4 in strips from this and then iron again (I did iron the seams open here).  You then sew them back together, twisting every second strip and lining up the goose blocks so that with every other set the corners are touching.  I found this to be the most difficult step as I kept putting them in the wrong order!  After you complete that you add a 3 in wide background strip to the top and the bottom of this reorganized set.

Then  you start slicing diagonally.  The first row is through the points of the square and the second is halfway through the white area.

You can see here the cuts.  You then just cut them apart..

They actually all came out just about perfectly the same size, required no trimming nor ironing and you get 20.

The pros of this is that compared even to the quick "four-at-a-time" way, this requires less drawing lines, pinning and trimming.

The cons of this are that you get bias flying geese which depending on how you sew can be a good or a bad thing.  As you don't have to iron anymore, it seems to be okay.  Another somewhat of a con is that you can only get 10 each of two color geese so if you are a fanatic scrapper like myself, this might be a little boring.  Also, there is quite a bit of excess fabric wastage in the background color.

These directions will only give you one size blocks and the pattern directions which give you multiple sizes are available at Kits by Carla.com for $9.

These blocks ended up being about 2" x 4" finished.