Flying Geese Quilt
Finished community quilt, shared by QuiltNTime, 31 October 2026
by QuiltNTime
Flying Geese Quilt by QuiltNTime is a finished quilt in the Quiltler community: 35" × 31", 22 blocks, 260 pieces and 3 fabrics on a straight grid, shared 31 October 2026.
At a glance
- Finished size
- 35" × 31"
- Blocks
- 22 blocks
- Pieces
- 260
- Fabrics
- 3
Watch it being made
How it's made
One rectangle, two squares and two seams. Here's how to make flying geese with perfect points.
It's named for geese flying in a V. Each goose is twice as wide as it is tall, and pointing them one way gives a quilt movement.
Cut a rust rectangle four and a half by two and a half inches, and two sky squares two and a half inches.
Lay a square on each top corner, sew corner to corner, trim a quarter inch past the line and press out. The rust becomes a point.
Make a gold one the same way, then a second of each, so you have four geese.
Sew them in a column, every point facing up. Sew just above the point so it stays sharp.
Stack the columns and the whole flock flies up the quilt.
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About this quilt
Flying geese with sharp points, the stitch-and-flip way: no triangles to cut and no bias edges. Each goose is 4 × 2″ finished (4½ × 2½″ unfinished).
CUT (for four geese) • Two rust and two gold 4½ × 2½″ rectangles • Eight sky 2½″ squares
MAKE • Draw a diagonal on the wrong side of each sky square • Lay one on a top corner of a rectangle, sew on the line, trim ¼″ past it and press out • Repeat on the other top corner: the rectangle now has a point • Sew the four geese into a column, points up, stitching just above each point so it stays sharp
OTHER SIZES: a goose is always twice as wide as tall. Cut the rectangle (finished width + ½″) × (finished height + ½″) and the squares the rectangle's height.
TIP: sew a second line ½″ outside the first before trimming and you get a bonus half-square triangle from every corner.
Which way should your flock fly?
Make this quilt your own
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