Christmas Flying Geese with Corner Pop 2

One week before Christmas and counting.  I am gifting one quilt this year -- and I still need to tack down the binding.  And still a little bit of shopping.  But actually in better shape than I normally am at this time of the year.   

Scroll down to see the free EQ8 tutorial on a new way to use flying geese units.  

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​Corner Pop Christmas Quilt Design

Do you have any extra flying geese units layout around?  This project is perfect for using those extra units.  Or you may find you are ready to create some new ones for a totally new and different quilt.

Here you can see the before photo of my flying geese block -- and the after photo after applying corners with a ratio of 2:1.

Stacked Flying Geese Units

Flying Geese with Corner Pop 2

Those of you that regularly read my blog posts, know that I like drawing blocks that are "folded corner" friendly.  These are units that can be added by placing a square piece of fabric on a block (or segment of a block and sewing from diagonal to diagonal to add a piece with a 45 degree corner).  Think of this as one of the methods to add those while corners to the flying geese units above.
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Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design has a tool called Corner Pop that more efficiently adds these types of folded corners.  But she also has tools that expand on the concept.

Corner Pop 2 will allow you to add popped corners with a 2:1 ratio. What that means is that Corner Pop 2 will make pops that are twice as tall as they are wide 

Corner Pop 3 will allow you to add popped corners with a 3:1 ratio. 

Both of these units will give you a nice spiky effect. ​

These corners don't need to be restricted to simple squares and rectangles.  In the video, I explain the process of adding them to a pieced block.

In addition to designing the Corner Pop 2 friendly block, learn how to use Shrink and Fit for a new block and Serendipity to play with block rotation in the Quilt Worktable.

Here are some quilt ideas using the block from the video.

​If you are not into using the specialty rulers, these designs would also be very conducive to foundation paper piecing.

In the last option, you can see how you can carry the block design into the border as well.  Make sure to use Tile Square border for blocks that are square.  Otherwise, they may not be Corner Pop 2 friendly.

There are so many ways to expand on this concept.  For fun start with a different simple block for the center.  I look forward to seeing what you do with the idea.

Share your ideas in the Learning EQ8 Facebook group.  I've set up a post for you pictures and ideas.

Christmas Flying Geese with Corner Pop 2 Post in EQ8 Facebook Group

Happy quilting.

​Kari

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