Flight Path

My latest quilt finish is Flight Path, a pattern from Alison Glass. For the fabric, I picked Alison Glass fabrics from the HandCrafted collections to give all the geese a glowing, jewel-like look.

I used to have a lot of trouble with flying geese, and they always seem to come out undersized. In this quilt however, I think I finally got comfortable with them. Apparently, the trick to perfect flying geese is the same as for perfect half-square triangles ... make them bigger and trim them down!

For the bright geese, I used dot-to-dot designs. It does double duty as quilting them and holding them down, but not overwhelming the fabrics.

I filled the backgrounds very, very densely. One of the sections is a matchstick quilting design. This is my first time using the matchstick design, and I quite like the way it looks.

Even though pebbling was my favorite design when I first started free-motion quilting, I got sick of them and haven't used it by itself for quite awhile. But here they are, and there's no denying that the texture of pebbles feels great under my fingers.

As much as I enjoy the front of the quilt, I like the back even better. I love using solid backing as not only is it cheaper than printed backing, it provides a wholecloth experience!

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