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**Janner** · August 12th 14, 09:36 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting

On 12/08/14 16:54, wrote:
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 9:30:38 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Hello Quilters

I need to make a correction on the Garden quilt top. I was saying 12 half squares when I should of been saying flying geese in each block. I was thinking flying geese but saying half-squares. Sorry about that. Has anyone else done this before, saying one thing but meaning something else?? Oh well, there will always be days like that.

Been taking my time sewing the blocks together which takes little over hour and 15 minutes for each block. What takes so much time is my tying all those strings. I now have 9 out of 30 blocks done. I am slow like a turtle but will make it to the finish line eventually. Laughing here.

Sandy$ in Idaho

Hello Leslie,
The string tying has to do with the 12 flying geese in each block. I do this by hand which takes some time. Even though I have reverse on my sewing machine I do not like to use it because it is harder to get undone if you have to take something apart. So for me it is just easier to do it by hand.
Sandy$ in Idaho

Can you not just sew in a row and do one after another and cut them
later, making a large string of them. You don't need to backstitch them
either as you'll sew over the seem allowance and when they are all
pieced this fixes the stitching down.

Janner
France