In praise of speed methods!

I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...371588,00.html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted, but it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50 (2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*? I've told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and Giles' I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little. I'm not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

Learning new things just for the sake of learning them is a valid reason to.
It feels fun to stretch our abilitys.
You can always put those FG into a garbage quilt... similar to a BOM but
less planned. :-)
Diana

--
Queen of FAQs
Royal Peace Maker
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"frood" wrote in message
r.com...
I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this
week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way
cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...299_1371588,00.
html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it
anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted, but
it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50 (2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss
Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*? I've
told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and Giles'
I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little. I'm
not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

Ok, shhh! Don't tell anybody, but I saw a quilt on Simply Quilts that was a
block with 3 FG units, all going the same way, with strips on either side,
to make a square block. Then the blocks were assembled with the geese going
every which way. I thought it was so cool, and that's what inspired the FG
frenzy. But, if I pretend I'm just learning a method, then I'm not starting
a new project. See?

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
Learning new things just for the sake of learning them is a valid reason
to.
It feels fun to stretch our abilitys.
You can always put those FG into a garbage quilt... similar to a BOM but
less planned. :-)
Diana

--
Queen of FAQs
Royal Peace Maker
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"frood" wrote in message
r.com...
I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this
week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap
basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way
cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:


http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...299_1371588,00.
html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it
anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted,
but
it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50 (2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss
Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*? I've
told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and
Giles'
I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little. I'm
not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go
right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

That sounds cool! What does simply quilts call this FQ quilt so I can hunt
for it?
--
Kathy in CA
Quilting Stuff:
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathys1068


"frood" wrote in message
m...
Ok, shhh! Don't tell anybody, but I saw a quilt on Simply Quilts that was
a
block with 3 FG units, all going the same way, with strips on either side,
to make a square block. Then the blocks were assembled with the geese
going
every which way. I thought it was so cool, and that's what inspired the FG
frenzy. But, if I pretend I'm just learning a method, then I'm not
starting
a new project. See?

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
Learning new things just for the sake of learning them is a valid reason
to.
It feels fun to stretch our abilitys.
You can always put those FG into a garbage quilt... similar to a BOM but
less planned. :-)
Diana

--
Queen of FAQs
Royal Peace Maker
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"frood" wrote in message
r.com...
I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this
week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap
basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way
cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:



http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...299_1371588,00.
html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have
a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it
anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted,
but
it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50
(2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss
Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*?
I've
told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and
Giles'
I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little.
I'm
not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go
right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

It was one of the background quilts when Linda Ballard was on, showing this
method. Show number 758, A Gaggle of Geese. But I couldn't find a pic of it.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Kathy in CA" wrote in message
...
That sounds cool! What does simply quilts call this FQ quilt so I can hunt
for it?
--
Kathy in CA
Quilting Stuff:
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathys1068

That's something I need to do! Just make my little type A self focus on
learning these techniques once and for all. Having these methods at my
fingertips would make it so much less daunting to plan a quilt. I tend to
be too impatient to do all the nit-picky one step at a time approaches, and
too impatient to stop and learn new ways to do the steps! Sooo, I often
avoid patterns that I like because they seem like too much trouble.
You're setting a very fine example, Wendy, (but don't let it go to your head

chipper

"frood" wrote in message
r.com...
I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this
week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way
cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...371588,00.html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it
anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted, but
it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50 (2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss
Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*? I've
told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and Giles'
I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little. I'm
not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

I wont tell anyone, for a small fee. I have need of a FG quilt in my future.
;-)
Diana

--
Queen of FAQs
Royal Peace Maker
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"frood" wrote in message
m...
Ok, shhh! Don't tell anybody, but I saw a quilt on Simply Quilts that was
a
block with 3 FG units, all going the same way, with strips on either side,
to make a square block. Then the blocks were assembled with the geese
going
every which way. I thought it was so cool, and that's what inspired the FG
frenzy. But, if I pretend I'm just learning a method, then I'm not
starting
a new project. See?

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
Learning new things just for the sake of learning them is a valid reason
to.
It feels fun to stretch our abilitys.
You can always put those FG into a garbage quilt... similar to a BOM but
less planned. :-)
Diana

--
Queen of FAQs
Royal Peace Maker
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"frood" wrote in message
r.com...
I've been trying out a couple of different speed piecing methods this
week.
First I tried fast flying geese, using this method:
http://www.patchpieces.com/FlyingGeese.pdf I dug through my scrap
basket
and cut some squares and made 5 or 6 sets of 4 flying geese units. Way
cool!

Today, I tried a HST method from Nancy Martin:



http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting...299_1371588,00.
html
I've been wanting to try this method for a long time, but didn't have
a
project that needed HSTs. Well I still don't, but I decided to do it
anyway!
In less than 20 minutes, I had 8 perfect HSTs. Cool! And, I'm not an
obsessivly accurate piecer. There is a small amount of fabric wasted,
but
it
was easy to get good, accurate HSTs. The site says you can get 50
(2.5")
from 2 FQs. I may just have to find a project for that! ;-) Hey, Miss
Fussy
Rose's quilt will need a border...

Why am I doing this? Mainly to learn how. Why am I doing it *now*?
I've
told
myself I can't start cutting Miss Fussy Rose's quilt, or Spike and
Giles'
I
Spy quilts until Xena is finished. I LOVE cutting. I'm not wild about
quilting. So, if I spend time quilting, then I get to play a little.
I'm
not
creating another UFO, I'm learning methods. The bits I create can go
right
in the scrap basket if I want.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply

frood wrote:
Ok, shhh! Don't tell anybody, but I saw a quilt on Simply Quilts that was a
block with 3 FG units, all going the same way, with strips on either side,
to make a square block. Then the blocks were assembled with the geese going
every which way. I thought it was so cool, and that's what inspired the FG
frenzy. But, if I pretend I'm just learning a method, then I'm not starting
a new project. See?


Yes, I saw that too. I've already given it some thought. The block in
the quilt is 3 flying geese units surrounded by 2 bars to make a square.
But the speed method makes 4 geese. The trick must be to use the
speed method 3 times with 1 fabric to make a total of 12 geese; use the
12 geese to make 4 blocks and speckle them around the quilt so it
doesn't look too predictable.

The quilt on Simply Quilts had the geese and the bars in jewel tones on
a black background. I'd want to throw some patterns in there too.

--Lia

Here is a pic of Gaggle of Geese..........with instructions
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/ar...396322,00.html

Ann
http://community.webshots.com/user/mrs_ducky

"frood" wrote in message
m...
It was one of the background quilts when Linda Ballard was on, showing
this
method. Show number 758, A Gaggle of Geese. But I couldn't find a pic of
it.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Kathy in CA" wrote in message
...
That sounds cool! What does simply quilts call this FQ quilt so I can
hunt
for it?
--
Kathy in CA
Quilting Stuff:
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathys1068

I figured I'd save the 4th gooses for a border, or use them for something
else.

--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
news:uNgNb.52361$5V2.65978@attbi_s53...

Yes, I saw that too. I've already given it some thought. The block in
the quilt is 3 flying geese units surrounded by 2 bars to make a square.
But the speed method makes 4 geese. The trick must be to use the
speed method 3 times with 1 fabric to make a total of 12 geese; use the
12 geese to make 4 blocks and speckle them around the quilt so it
doesn't look too predictable.

The quilt on Simply Quilts had the geese and the bars in jewel tones on
a black background. I'd want to throw some patterns in there too.

--Lia