When we left off last time, I was in the process of making 160 flying geese. I was doing them in batches of 20 so I wouldn’t have to do the same thing 160 times at once. Here I have some in all three stages of piecing. I stacked the finished ones up in groups of 10 so I could keep count.

Seventy done, ninety to go.

I took a break from the geese to add a border to the quilt top. I thought it would be good to have a border between the pinwheels and the geese.

When the geese were done, I began sewing pairs together.

The key to perfect points is to sew through the x created by the previous seams.

Then, the geese are arranged into longer strips.

Because the quilt size is an even number, the number of geese fits the side exactly.

Sew with the pieced geese on top, the seam is lifted with a pin to be sure I am hitting the point correctly.

At this point, I went back to the bee prints and picked out four bits I could fussy cut for cornerstones.

Test fitting the long lines of geese, I made sure the seams lined up. I had to pick out this seam and adjust the geese row on the bottom as I didn’t want the same print on both sides of the cornerstone.

I added the geese border in round robin fashion for all four sides.

Sewing the last flying geese border with the last two cornerstones completed the top.

Then, a final border is added in black as a final frame.

Piecing finished! It lays reasonably flat considering all the bias edges in the medallion half-rectangles, the pinwheels and the flying geese. The bad news is that it only actually took 92 flying geese, so I had 68 left over. I’ll show you what I did with those later.

This quilt was begging for custom quilting. I’ll show you that next time. It took longer to quilt than it did to piece! Do you like the design?