Quick Tips: Flying Geese

If you're making flying geese, using the traditional method of having a rectangle and two squares, you might have been taught to mark the back of your square sew it and then trim your seam allowance right away. And I'm gonna tell you that I want you to do your pressing before you do any of your trimming because it will give you a much more precise and square flying yeast in the end. I have my square already marked. I'm gonna go ahead and put this right sides together. So I have my mark square going diagonal and I'm gonna sew on my drawn line.

Once I've zoned on my drawn line, I can go ahead and clip my threads and this is where it's tempting to right away. Trim that seam allowance to one quarter inch because that might be what you've been told in the past. But I want you to first bring in your pressing mat and press your wing of your flying geese first. What this is going to allow you to do is fold up the piece of your flying geese and make sure that it aligns perfectly with this rectangle. You're attaching it to before you trim that away.

If you didn't have that, it would be very easy to accidentally have maybe the wing of your flying geese up too far to the top, maybe too far over to the left or right, depending on what side you're attaching it to. So make sure that it aligns perfectly with the top and edge of your initial rectangle that you stitched it to, then bring in your iron. Give it a good press. Then once you've done that, now you can simply fold up your top wing. So you can see this background here, trim that away and then you're good to go to attach your other side.

So again, if you're doing the traditional flying geese where you have one rectangle and two squares, so first, then press, then you can go ahead and trim away the excess and you'll have much more square and perfect uh flying geese in your next project.