Monday, June 29, 2015

Geese on the Wall

Last week I spent a lot of time in the sewing room, working on this: 

This is my KBFG (Kaffe/Batik Flying Geese) project - it will finish about 78 by 90 when complete but it takes up my whole design wall. I can't get far enough away in my sewing room to get a good picture.
 
Every time I taka a photo and look at it, I find pieces I have to move around. And moving one piece means several more have to be adjusted....
 
This project has 390 flying geese, 270 of them with light sky and 120 with dark sky. 13 columns, 30 rows of 3" x 6" flying geese units. So far there are 46 different fabrics:
- 14 Kaffe Fasset prints
- 7 Batiks
- 2 other prints for geese
- 13 white ground sky prints
- 10 black ground sky prints

This week I'll get each row labeled, packed up and organized so I can assemble the top later, at camp at the end of July.

Link ups:
Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced
Lets Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts
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18 comments:

  1. Libby in TNJune 29, 2015 at 6:43 AM

    The black sky geese really hold this quilt together. I'm not a Kaffe fan, but I think you have used his fabrics wisely.

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  2. RamonaJune 29, 2015 at 8:16 AM

    Jan, this is gorgeous! I love Kaffe and batiks and the flying geese are so much fun with these fabrics. Beautiful!!

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  3. JasmineJune 29, 2015 at 8:34 AM

    Wow! This looks amazing. I love how you have it laid out.

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  4. Yvonne from Quilting JetgirlJune 29, 2015 at 9:00 AM

    I struggle with my design wall being a bit too small sometimes too - and it's a whole wall! That always amazes me. :) The cascading effect of working on "random" placement and rearranging can be fun and daunting at times. I like the movement the directions of the geese give the quilt, and I like how the dark background geese ground it all by pointing in the same direction.

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  5. scraphappyJune 29, 2015 at 9:59 AM

    So many geese. I am amazed that you can keep them all straight. Beautiful layout.

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  6. Judy@Quilt ParadigmJune 29, 2015 at 10:19 AM

    OH MY!! This is so gorgeous!! You have me eying my KF and batik collection. . . Wowsers! I keep going back to look at it :) Beautifully done!

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  7. KajaJune 29, 2015 at 11:28 AM

    The bigger this gets, the more I love it.

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  8. TerriJune 29, 2015 at 11:32 AM

    One word... Gorgeous. and Amazing... well, two words then. I love it.
    Hugs

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  9. SherrillJune 29, 2015 at 12:27 PM

    That's a lotta geese!! But so pretty. Is there a particular way you're making your geese? Are you doing as a sort of leader/ender project?

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  10. AnnieOJune 29, 2015 at 10:55 PM

    Gorgeous! Oh, I see I'm not the only fan of that word describing your geese :) What a striking and wonderful design wall with all the movement going on there.

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  11. Teresa in Music CityJune 30, 2015 at 4:57 AM

    Such a simple idea - such a gorgeous quilt!!!!

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  12. BonnieJune 30, 2015 at 7:58 AM

    It looks wonderful. It seems an enormous project that takes a lot of "stick-to-itness" to finish. Good job. Are there borders planned too?

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  13. Rachel @ QuiltineeringJune 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM

    WOW!! It is looking so incredibly fabulous!!

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  14. Lisa J.July 1, 2015 at 8:45 AM

    This is a beautiful quilt. I'm often caught in the cycle of endlessly moving around the blocks.With this many flying geese it must go on and on.

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  15. StephieJuly 1, 2015 at 2:22 PM

    Oooh, that's one gorgeous quilt top coming into being! I love colour. I love Kaffe. And I love your design!

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  16. JanineMarieJuly 1, 2015 at 7:38 PM

    Beautiful! I really like how the two patterns (direction of geese and background colors work together). Have fun with that planned randomness! It can take over your life...

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  17. Serena @ SewgivingJuly 2, 2015 at 10:54 PM

    Goodness me that is a lot of geese! Are you using the 4 at once trick or do you have another method?

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  18. swoozeJuly 3, 2015 at 8:01 AM

    I LOVE your flying geese quilt!

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