A Bluestocking Knits

I have slowly been collecting 5″ charm packs of vaguely mid-19th-century-style fabrics — some freebies, some lucky finds, many on sale — so am going to put together a few blocks every week and be delighted when I look in the box (eventually) and there are hundreds of them.  There are apparently three most-common ways of assembling a flying-geese block, and although the “no-waste” appellation appealed most, I don’t really want to have lots of duplicate blocks, so am going with the “stitch and flip” method, using rectangles for the “geese” and squares for the “sky”.  There is a bit of waste involved, as I have to trim off a half-inch from one end of the rectangles, but it’s a simple matter to get the right-sized squares from a 5″ charm square, and this method seems to need the least amount of trimming.

That half-inch I think will have to go into the compost, as I don’t think I could face sewing on a strip that narrow, but I saw a little tip for the small triangles that are trimmed off the nearly-finished block, so I’m putting in a second seam as I go, in order to make small half-square-triangle blocks for some later project ….