Back to Gettysburg

Or at least to the battle flags!

Block 4.5 that you saw yesterday is now completed and has therefore become Block 5.  Here's a look:

I'm very pleased with how it came out.  My goal is to have it scrappy (check) and to break up most of the blocks into smaller sub-blocks (check).  Very happy with this one!

Trace asked what Flying Geese are - great question!  See the red triangles in Block 5 (above)?  That quilt block is called "Flying Geese" - a very popular pattern that has been around since the 1800s.  You can imagine looking up at the sky and seeing the "V" formation - or does one triangle represent the wings of one goose?  I'm not sure, but I think the block was aptly named.  I've made a note to shoot pix of the Flying Geese quilt I made a few years ago; will share that soon.

Adding fabric around one of the larger battle flags resulted in this:

See the bird by the lowest red stripe? That sort of thing just cracks me up. No, I didn't plan that, but YES I'm leaving it in! I ... have to!


I've been researching the flags as I put this quilt together and hope to have a short synopsis of what unit each flag represents and maybe a little history by the time I'm done.  I love doing that sort of "work"!

Here's what I had as of close of business yesterday:

Blocks 1-7!  This isn't how they'll be arranged for the final wall-hanging; it's just so I can see my progress!  Right now, the plan is to go with 6 blocks across and 3 down.  (That's why I turned 19 battle flags into 18 blocks!)

Thanks so much for reading!