Today, when not hacking up a lung or wiping Twinkle's perpetually runny nose, I finished a project.
If you make a Flying Geese block using a certain method*, you get two little Half-Square Triangle blocks as a side benefit. If you make about 388 Flying Geese blocks, like I did six months ago, you get about 775 little HST blocks. Which is enough to make 5 bags. (The first bag I made before Christmas and is packed with our Christmas stuff and was thus unavailable for photographing.) Each of the HST blocks is about 1.5" square, finished.
The drawstring, lining and casing (that red and white strip) on this bag is a piece from my great-grandmother's stash. |
I'm pretty crazy about them. not gonna lie. Which is a good thing because as many hours as these took to piece, assemble and finish (Not to speak of the original Flying Geese/HST piecing!), I definitely wouldn't be able to sell them for a reasonable price! All of them have a different arrangement of HST blocks, and each one has a different color lining and matching drawstring.
The really incredible thing is, after 775 squares ... I'm still not tired of them.
*I intended to include a link to this method, but Google is failing me. I shall have to do a tutorial of my own sometime soon!
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