Geese in Flying Colors

Every year my quilt guild has a themed challenge for the members to make.  This year was Revolution in Color and the quilt could be displayed for our local quilt show in April and also voted on in our guild meeting in June.  

I wanted to make a quilt with "flying geese" going in a circle and then more geese flying the opposite way in the outer border.  Flying Geese is a quilting term referring to triangles that look like geese that are flying.

I started by making some "geese" in different colors and then found a pattern on how to make them fly in a circle.  I pulled some different colors from the fabrics that I had bought last year on the Shop Hop and somehow they worked for the different colors.

For the middle square, I wasn't sure what color to use.  I tried many different colors, but ended up using white to make the gray star stand out better.

Here are my geese flying in a circle!  I was happy with how it looked.

Somehow the flying geese colors worked out so well that they also fit along the sides of the next border.  I made some little sawtooth stars to fit into the corners and love how it all came together.

At first I quilted 1/4" lines in the large center star and in each of the flying geese triangles.  But them I thought that it needed more quilting in the center.

Then I had to put more quilting in the outer white areas and then more quilting in the white areas around the geese border and finally, more quilting in the gray border.

I had wanted to enter my quilt in my local quilt guild show, but I was sick for 3 months at the start of this year and couldn't do any sewing.  So I decided to make my wall hanging for the June meeting and started and completed the entire project in just 30 days!  

I brought my entry to the June meeting and won 1st place from the members' votes.  I'm so proud of my quilt and the fact that it came out what I dreamed it to be and that I actually finished it in time.  

I'm calling it Geese in Flying Colors.  I will definitely keep it and hang it somewhere in my home.