Flying Goose Vortex with Elaine Poplin
Flying Goose Vortex is a Dresden-style foundation pieced pattern in 25 wedges. By using a chain-piecing method along with the foundation piecing process, the project comes together much more simply than one might expect. There are no points to match when sewing the completed foundations together, so it is a great project for a beginner to foundation piecing, but there is enough interest to entertain more seasoned quilters as well.
Students (even beginners) can go home with most of the Table Topper foundations complete, and there is an option to continue and make a larger tree skirt if desired.
Fabric Requirements for Table Topper (about 25" in diameter):
- (5) contrasting fat quarters or 1/4 yards for the geese (can use jelly roll strips but will need 2-3 each of similar colors for the spiral effect)
- 1-1/2 yards of background fabric
- 7" square of scrap fabric for the center
backing and bias binding fabric: 1-1/4 yards (will not need for class)
Fabric Requirements for Tree Skirt (about 44" in diameter):
- for 1 colorway: (5) Contrasting 1/2 yards (for full spiral of geese)
OR
- for 2 colorways (like the sample photo): (5) fat quarters or 1/4 yards in Color 1 and (5) fat quarters or 1/4 yards in Color 2
AND
- 2-1/2 yards background fabric
- 1-1/2 yard backing fabric (will not need for class)
- 1/2 yard fabric for bias binding and ties (will not need for class)
Other supplies needed for class (beyond basic sewing machine, thread, pins, rotary cutter, small mat):
- Scotch Tape (I will bring some)
- Paper Scissors (I will bring some)
- Add-a-quarter ruler (Required)
- Clover clips (optional but recommended)
- A lunch break will be provided, the shop has a refrigerator available for use.
Table Topper - approx. 25" diameter
Tree Skirt - approx. 44" diameter
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
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| Instructor: | Elaine Poplin |
| Instructor Bio: | Elaine Wick Poplin is a Huntsville native, and a retired high school math teacher. She has been sewing since preschool and quilting for almost as long. Her quilts have been displayed (and some have ribboned) at AQS shows around the country, at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, at QuiltCon, and at the Georgia Quilt Show, in all of the local HQH Fanfare Quilt Shows since 2005, and has had her work published in several magazines and books. She is a member of Heritage Quilters of Huntsville, the Modern Quilt Guild, and is an ambassador for Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics. Elaine first started Free-Motion Quilting in 2002, and switched to a longarm quilting machine in 2016. She upgraded to an INNOVA in 2022, and has been LOVING it! |
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