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Use this beginner-friendly flying geese tutorial plus video to make a classic quilt block. suzyquilts.com

Easy Flying Geese Quilt Block Tutorial

The Flying Geese quilt block is simple, versatile, and relatively quick to make. You can make them one at a time using small pieces of fabric, or even 4-at-a-time to speed up the process.

Flying Geese can stand alone as a single block, stacked on top of each other to give the appearance of geese flying in the sky, or can be used to make many other famous quilt blocks — the Sawtooth Star being one of them.

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The best tutorial on how to trim half square triangles! Make perfect HSTs every time with this sewing method. suzyquilts.com #hst #quilting

How to Trim Half Square Triangles

How to trim half square triangles is a basic quilting skill that, at least at some point in your quilting career, you will probably have to figure out. There are different ways to sew, press and trim half square triangles, but let me tell you, as someone who has made thousands of these wonderful blocks, I have recently landed on a favorite way to do it.

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