Mystery Quilt Along w/ 3 x 6 Flying Geese - Fab Requirements

[SallyC]

Oasis,
How did youknow how many of each type of geese to make (or are you guessing?) I'm in.

[knitnoid]

Sally -- The cutting instructions and information on the flying geese can be found at this thread: http://www.quiltinaday.com/community/to ... 53&forum=6

Each set of instructions will have its own topic so in theory, the surprise will still be there for those who want to be surprised.

[WeSignificant]

My flying geese are all sewn. Just need to cut 12 with El's ruler. I hope we are done cutting as number one my arm is killing me! and number two, I am now out of the Color A fabric. How do you guys stop the ruler from sliding. I am using muscle power and the power is off!

[Littlebit]

Valerie - I use Invisagrip on the back of all my rulers ) Seems to help

[SallyC]

Here's my step 1 and 2. Just saw there is now a step 3, I'm off to studio to play!!

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[WeSignificant]

Littlebit what is invisagrip and were do I get it?

[Littlebit]

Valerie - Invisigrip is the plastic stuff that clings to your rulers - QIAD usually has it, but it is not showing up as in stock right now. I'm pretty sure you can get it at JoAnns or Hancocks, it comes in a tube, plus I spelled it wrong in the first message )




Sally I love your fabrics - Beautiful!

[sadiedaisy1]

Linda & Sally, your geese look great! I'm already behind...hopefully I'll get caught up to you ladies today.

WeSignificant, I use the Invisigrip on my rulers, but sometimes they still slide around so I put the little sandpaper dots on my long ruler (for cutting WOF strips) and it's worked great. I also bought the Gypsy Gripper to use when I'm cutting a lot. It works well too and it keeps your hands off the ruler in case of any rotary cutter slippage. I just saw on a blog where a quilter cut her finger tip really bad and had to get 7 stitches and then she did it again after it had healed, but this time they couldn't stitch it and she just had to bandage it. Ouch! So be careful everyone.

[LadyRags]

BUMPING UP SO ALL THE STEPS CAN BE IN THE SAME AREA... it did not dawn on me til I was just about to get off the site that the different steps were posted in the past.

[knitnoid]

A mistake has been found in the directions. As written if you are using the QIAD Ruler for the flying geese, you'll come up 1/2" short of Color A.

I'm too tired to know for certain if this is a math error, or if I have you cutting one too many strips.

It is still possible to make the quilt as designed (and I wouldn't substitue another fabric for the geese with Color A skies). Fall back on the square/rectangle method for those 4 geeese.

I'll check my math tomorrow and revise whatever needs to be revised.

Pam