This one went together quickly, which was great, after it took me until February 34th to finish my overly-ambitious February quilting goals. Perhaps a 47-piece block and sashing an entire triangle row was too much for the shortest month of the year.

I cut out the pieces for this on a Thursday night, and marked the stitching lines, so that I’d have something to work on at bowling the next night. I figured I could focus on putting together some of those flying geese segments (for the uninitiated, flying geese use one large and two small triangles to create a rectangle shape with a triangle in the middle).

That part of the process was perfect for stitching on the go, because the layout and pattern matching don’t really matter while you’re making those. I got about 1/3 of those done at bowling.

The next day, I was determined to have some free quilting time on Zoom with my quilty friends. I finished the flying geese and started to puzzle out the layout of the different segments for the block.

I’d picked this fabric a long time ago, and I guess it didn’t occur to me that I’d have green pieces next to other green pieces right there in the middle of the block, and it might be hard to match up the pattern repeat on these.

So, I took my randomly-cut green squares and my flying geese rectangles and arranged them this way and that. I decided there wasn’t any combo that was going to match up exactly.

But one of the five squares had a far different pattern repeat than the others (which were all pretty similar), so it made sense to put that one in the center.

And then, after trying those flying geese in every possible formation, I chose flying geese units that seemed like they might be vaguely in the ballpark motif-wise once they were stitched to that center square.

I turned out to be way off on that, but I think it is not as noticeable as I had feared. If anyone questions it, I’ll just tell them the geese are disoriented and change the subject.