More Flying Geese!

Easy Street Clue #4 was posted early Friday morning and given the busy day that lay ahead, I promptly reviewed the information and printed out a hard copy for my reference.  I did borrow the advise of another Easy Street participant and bought a thin binder to keep all of my clues in an orderly fashion.  This proved to be very helpful since Clue #4 did reference the steps used in Clue#2 for cutting and piecing more Flying Geese units.

I admit that somewhere along the way I have ended up with extra cut piece from various steps, so have kept them all in a pile should I have use for them in future steps.  Yippie! I had at least 20 leftover geese cut from Clue #2, so was ahead of the game when I started (and completed) the cutting and piecing on Saturday.

It was a gloomy and rainy day here in Chicagoland, so sewing in the basement was just what I wanted to be doing.  I must admit that it was nice to have company in the basement as my college age son was enjoying his first day of break playing video games in the other area of the basement. Of course, the continued encouragement of my dear husband has been a wonderful shot in the arm when the arm gets too tired to finish my work.  He is so supportive of my quilting and recovery efforts.  I am truly blessed!

The geese pieced together well and as expected, when assembling them into complete units with 64 of the previous Flying Geese, several of these birds seem to have had a nose job.  Meaning that their beaks are sometimes cut off and hidden in the seam.  As I mentioned in the lessons learned in Clue#2, this is a learning piece and I am happy with the overall outcome. Here are the assembled units now on my design wall.

64 Double Flying Geese Units

I am really getting excited about how this will all come together.  Bonnie said in today's post that we are half way complete and that there are no more Flying Geese.  I also pre-cut the 145 assorted 3-1/2" green squares for use in a future clue.



Assorted Green Squares


Since its Linky Monday, here is the link to Bonnie's page showing everyone's progress.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-4.html

All done for now with Clue #4.  Anxiously awaiting Clue #5 on Friday. So glad to have this opportunity. What a wonderful gift from Bonnie that I am thrilled to have given myself!

Even better is that both my son and daughter are home from college.  These are all the gifts I need!