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Dorothy, if you could post a link to the ebay store or give us an auction number so that we could see the block we could most likely give you a name for it and maybe even directions on how to make it. Other than that, I'm totally lost trying to imagine what it looks like. Sorry.

Leslie & The Furbabies > Okay I'm going to give you all a challenge. I saw a square on

Hi Leslie,

The store is QuiltCreative They have quilt kits and fabric. Maybe that will help. It's the square in the center of three in her logo.

Dorothy DeFuniak Springs, FL

if you can see it, just cut and paste the link so we can too, I can probably find it on the details you've given, but I'm not going to waste the time when you have the link there.

Anne

Look closely Leslie, whether you consider the whole thing as a nine patch, or the inner star as a nine patch with missing corners, the lengths of the sides are not all equal, but are close enough that it almost looks like they are. I only realised this when I realised the flying geese are all the same, but 4 are on a diagonal and 4 are not. Having looked through it, I definitely recommend drafting, I think with careful choice of size, you shouldn't have to make templates, but it would definitely help to figure it all out, I found it hard on the brain and I have a maths degree!

Its at:

The Star bit is in Quilterscache:

I put the original Ebay picture into Paintshop Pro and made it bigger, but it was very pixellated and so difficult to see, but I agree that its a 9 patch with missing corners. The 3 geese at the top, bottom and sides look straight forward, you'd just have to work out the size, but the diagonals - I would want to draw out how they are set - there seemed to be more background fabric at the pointy ends.

I looked through her kits to see if I could get a bigger image from there, but couldn't see it, though I may have missed it. Most of the blocks are only 9" completed, but this one must be more - or very fiddly!

It's the same shape, but if you made it like that and then measured the sides to get the size of the flying geese block, it wouldn't fit across the diagonal of the corner square.

I was thinking for setting, that you'd put a half square triangle between the geese, then cut it inline with the diagonal flying geese block then put on another half square triangle.

Anne

I think it's just an Ohio Star surrounded by Flying Geese. It should be fairly simple to re-create.

Anne, look a little closer. If you extend the star points along both sides you will see that the sides are all equal. There are extra triangles at the ends of the FG on the diagonal. Plus the FG are set flush to the star points. The star points are sort of between a flying goose shape and a "triangle in a square" shape, like in 54-40 or Fight blocks.

I have a feeling this is an original design block and doesn't have a "common" name. But wouldn't be difficult to draft at all. It is a 9-Patch with a small center--- the outer squares are larger than the center one, and in fact are only square in the corners. The middles are rectangles half the flying geese, and half the star points. And the corners are the geese with a small inner triangle and a larger outer triangle. Once drafted it wouldn't be difficult to sew up, although you might want to paper piece those star point units with their odd measurements.

Pati, >>level? If you look across the top of the block, you will find it's a

I disagree, the extra triangles between the diagonal flying geese and the vertical/horizontal ones don't add any length, at the points of the star, so the distance between any two adjacent points is the same, whether it's diagonal or horizontal/vertical, ie a perfect octagon, join opposite corners of an octagon to get a tic tac toe grid and it's not far off being a perfect nine patch, but it isn't one. If you look up instructions for drafting an eight point star (which is where the points of this are, though it's not a perfect 8 point star), you'll find that you need special techniques to mark the points, and don't just split each sides into 3rd, though that does give a near approximation that is used in quilt blocks.

Anne

Hi all,

I'm waiting to hear back from this lady but she apparrently does some type of classes for the pattern I was looking for. Don't know if they are internet classes or store so I have to wait to hear back from her. I'm not good at waiting. LOL

The link below will take you to the page. She calls her quilt Dizzy Geese. I was able to click on the picture and enlarge it then print it. So maybe with that I can figure it out.

Thanks to all those that were trying to help me with this quest. For those that also liked this square you might like visiting the site. Sorry to the one I annoyed by not knowing exactly how to copy a URL. Now I know how so hopefully that won't happen again.

Here's the link

Here's a larger picture of an entire quilt. I'd say the center top square IS a rectangle???

http://www.fly> Hi all,

And on this quilt you can even see her seams- it looks even easier to figure out.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

There is some lovely quilting in that quilt!

Okay, replying to my own post. I measured the quilt block right on my computer screen. The height to width ratio on the star points is

3:2. (The angles coming off the center square in a square do not match the angles of the star points, so I knew I was on the right track!) So I used 2 in. X 3 in. (on 1/4 in. graph paper) for the block with the star point and built the star around those measurements. The I used the "normal" flying geese ratio of 2:1. I drew out flying geese in a separate area of my graph paper and glued them into place in the corners on the diagonal to prove they were the same size as the geese above the star points. It worked. My block came out 11 in. X 11 in., so I would increase that to 22 in. X 22 in. Here's a photo of my graph paper drawing- (I didn't finish the last two corners... sorry!)

Leslie- who can NOT resist a challenge! & The Furbabies > And on this quilt you can even see her seams- it looks even easier to > figure out.

Lovely quilting and lovely points, too! ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Fantastic! This just goes to show that 'drawing' makes the quilt >gg< Instinctive mathematical skill. Had I not been rushing around this week, I would have joined you in the 'draw this block' challenge!! I think the idea of separate drawing of the geese + gluing into place was a terrific idea. . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

I *like* that- instinctive mathematical skill"!!! Thank you for that very descriptive phrase.... now I have a way to explain how I think when someone says "how did you do that"? I never have been able to explain it- it's just how my brain works... sometimes! VBG

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.