Love Flying Geese Book {& A Giveaway}

I received an unex­pec­ted email a few weeks ago and it was a won­der­ful sur­prise. The edit­ors of Love Patch­work & Quilt­ing Magazine have pub­lished a book filled with their favour­ite fly­ing geese quilts. The book is called Love Fly­ing Geese and it is avail­able now from C&T Pub­lish­ing. Inside you’ll find two of my designs along with 25 oth­er quilts!

Love Fly­ing Geese includes 27 quilt pro­jects from amaz­ing quilters you already know and love includ­ing; Kar­en Lewis, Aman­da Castor, Minki Kim, Jemima Flendt and Moira de Carvalho. The quilts are as var­ied as they are beau­ti­ful and in true Love Patch­work style the instruc­tions are easy to fol­low and include plenty of diagrams. 

Pastel Twist Quilt

The first of my fly­ing geese quilts included is this Pas­tel Twist quilt. Made with just four print fab­rics Pas­tel Twist is a fun baby/lap size quilt that comes togeth­er sur­pris­ingly quickly. 

Inspir­a­tion truly is every­where and this quilt is a per­fect example of that. The Pas­tel Twist quilt was based on a scarf I saw while on hol­i­days. The top row of the quilt is pretty sim­il­ar to the pat­tern I saw on the scarf but, it did­n’t look so great on a quilt by itself. By play­ing around with the ori­ent­a­tion of the block and adding a couple of addi­tion­al col­ours Pas­tel Twist was born. Now that it’s done I think I like it even more than the scarf it was based on!

If you would like to see more of this quilt you can check out this earli­er post for heaps more pic­tures and inform­a­tion. Included in the post is a fun pil­low you can make with the offcuts of any fly­ing geese units. (That might just come in handy if you make a quilt from this book!)

Summer Scoop Quilt

The second one of my quilts included in this great book is the Sum­mer Scoop pat­tern. Does­n’t it remind you of yummy gelato or sorbet with this pretty fab­rics by Kate Spain.

Sum­mer Scoop is based on a tra­di­tion­al block design. To mod­ern­ise the look I upsized the blocks and off­set each row to give the blocks some movement. 

Sum­mer Scoop is one of my favour­ite designs and it is avail­able as a stand alone pat­tern in my shop as well as being included in the Love Fly­ing Geese book.

And just in case a quilt is feel­ing a bit much… The Love Fly­ing Geese book also includes the pat­tern to make this one block cush­ion cov­er. You can read more about Sum­mer Scoop and see more pic­tures in this post.

Giveaway Now Closed

The lovely folks at C&T Pub­lish­ing are giv­ing away an eBook copy of Love Fly­ing Geese: 27 Mod­ern Quilt Pro­jects from Love Patch­work & Quilt­ing to one lucky She Quilts A Lot read­er. To enter just leave a com­ment on this post telling me your favour­ite quilt block. I’ll choose a win­ner next Monday and will pub­lish the res­ult back here. Good luck!

Thanks for all of the entries and con­grat­u­la­tions to Shar­on. Your eBook will be on the way.

The Blog Tour Continues…

Check out this oth­er blog­gers for a look at the pro­jects and quilts they have in this fun new book.

Have a happy week,

26 thoughts on “Love Flying Geese Book {& A Giveaway}

  1. I love the eco­nomy block. I nev­er made any­thing with fly­ing geese, must change that.

  2. What a great look­ing book! My favor­ite quilt block is the Dresden. I don’t mind mak­ing fly­ing geese at all because I have always loved a chal­lenge and com­plet­ing that block with points per­fectly matched is a good one.

  3. I like the tri­angle in a square block because it gives the impres­sion of curves when com­bined with HSTs.

  4. It is really dif­fi­cult for me to pick a ‘favor­ite’ quilt block — there are so many fas­cin­at­ing ones! Lately I have been grav­it­at­ing toward mav­er­ick stars and broken dishes designs, though…

  5. My favor­ite is log cab­in, but I am so impressed with all the options for fly­ing geese! This looks like a won­der­ful book.

  6. I love how you changed things up with your fly­ing geese! My favor­ite block is the Pine­apple. I love to paper piece them.

  7. I love any vari­ation of a star block! One of my first quilts was a red, white, and blue saw­tooth star for the Fourth of July. My points would­n’t match up and I had a hard time with it, but all I learn from it has made it one of my favorites!

  8. Some of my favor­ite blocks are the Churn Dash and saw­tooth Star. You can’t go wrong with fly­ing geese & half square tri­angle blocks, so ver­sat­ile! Your Sum­mer Scoop pat­tern is on my To Do list! ?

  9. My favor­ite block is always the one I’m work­ing at so the cur­rent favor­ite is Granny Squares. I’ve nev­er tried to make fly­ing geese but would love to learn. Thanks for the chance!

  10. Hope I’m not too late for this great giveaway!
    My cur­rent fave is the friend­ship star 🙂

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