Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Wanderer ♡ : :

Wanderer LOVE!

Last week this gorgeous bundle of Wanderer arrived at my door, generously sent by it's sweet maker, April Rhodes! At Fall Quilt Market this collection was one of my very favorites. It's so full of clever, artistic designs in a color palette of dusky blues, rusty oranges, and sandy brown that I completely adore. It's these dreamy Wanderer colors that inspired my latest design, a new flying geese quilt with a unique layout idea that I'm super excited to try and share. I wasted no time and got right to cutting!

Wanderer Plans

One hundred Wanderer geese later!

100 Flying Geese

This beautiful shade of Spruce blue is one of my new favorites and made such a perfect starting point for this new Wanderer Quilt. Don't you love it?

Wanderer Illuminated

Wanderer Geese Quilt Beginnings

I plan to continue working my way to finishing this one in time for my stop on the Wanderer Blog Hop happening later this month when this must have collection will be hitting our favorite stores. Stay tuned!

Flying Geese in Wanderer

♡ Maureen   

33 comments:

  1. I am loving this Maureen. Of course I am a fool for teal and flying geese, what's not to love?

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  2. I'm with you - those are some beautiful colors!

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  3. Love this Maureen. What size flying Geese is this?

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    1. They are 3 1/4" x 6". I'd share my starting measurements, but I miscalculated and had a little bit of overlap on several of my geese units that I had to trim away. I haven't taken the time to decrease the size of my smaller square cuts to see what size would have worked better. I plan to do that before I share the finished quilt so I can offer those measurements to those who might want to make this quilt, too! :)

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    2. I'm definitely looking forward to details on how to make this!

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  4. you have such a talent for looking at a fabric bundle and picking just the right pattern and placement to make the fabrics shine in a wonderful piece of art - green eyes here!

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  5. Maureen - I really like the layout you've done with these flying geese. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished quilt. Great job!

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  6. I love it! I wish I had your talent for putting fabric combinations together.

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  7. Beautiful Quilt in the making. What is your favorite method of making Flying Geese? I can't wait to see the whole quilt.

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    1. I always use the "make 4 at a time" method. Making them this way creates four geese units at a time with almost no waste/trimming. You can see a how-to in my free Soaring High Quilt pattern for Cloud9 Fabrics here -- http://cloud9fabrics.com/blog/Projects/SoaringHighQuilt.pdf

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  8. So beautiful.Great eye fabric!

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  9. Maureen this is really nice flying geese is one of my favorite patterns

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  10. I love the Sacred Seeds Mojave!!! (the navy with the little stick birds; yep I had to look it up!) I can't wait to see where this quilt is going!

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  11. Maureen I absolutely love your 100 Flying geese in April's "Wanderer" collection. Of course I love April Rhodes "Arizona" collection and now "Wanderer"
    Perhaps a flying geese quilt is in my future....a friend gifted me with the Deb Tucker "Wing Clipper" template and I'm still practicing making my geese:) Looking forward to the Wanderer Blog Hop. Any prints in desert or Native American always on my wish list.

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    1. This collection sounds perfect for you then, April has captured that desert/bohemian spirit perfectly!

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  12. what beautiful colours!

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  13. Oooh, the waves of color are so pretty. Great idea!

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    1. Thanks Rachel! I'm excited to reach my fiery orange geese units, it's going to be good! Thanks for stopping by!

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  14. Oh Maureen! It's so pretty! You're right, those colours are gorgeous!

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  15. From what you've shown so far this is going to be another Stunning quilt!! You just can't miss! Lol. Love all your ideas and thank you for being such an inspiration!!

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  16. This is beautiful! I love everything about it! As usual, you are Rockin it!!

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  17. I'm loving your flying geese layout!

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  18. oooooo aaaaaahhhh! can't wait to see how this turns out!

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  19. The colours in this are gorgeous, looking forward to seeing your flock grow :o)

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  20. Simply gorgeous! How much of each fabric is needed to make this quilt?

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