Brown Goose

A year or so ago, in with my collection of fabric scraps and projects that had been started, I found a box of small triangle cut-aways---in pairs!  LOTS of them!!! 

 

I cannot recall where they came from, but I had obviously looked at working with them sometime in the past.  In with them was a pieced block--"Brown Goose".  Plus, being somewhat of an amateur poet, in the box was a poem** that I had written about Brown Goose.  It was time to continue this project.

I set the box of cut aways next to my sewing machine and used the pairs as my thread savers ("leaders and enders") as I was sewing other projects.  As the pairs were sewn, they were set aside.  

It took me several months to sew all of the pairs.  Once all were pieced, they were pressed and trimmed to 1 3/4" square.  

Sixteen squares were needed for one Brown Goose block.  I ended up with enough squares to make 14 blocks!  The blocks finished 5" square. 

I re-read and tweaked my poem to ponder how to use the 14 blocks. 

**Little Brown Goose was waddling along,

   Enjoying the day,

  Singing a song.

Out jumped her buddy, Bright Green Frog.

  They stopped to chat

  On a nearby log.

Miss Blue Bird was flying by.

  When she saw her friends,

  She stopped to say “Hi”.

All their noise woke Furry Gray Mouse.

  She peered out, saying

 “Who's on my house?”

Seeing her pals, she cried “It's you three!”

 “Stay right there.

  I'll put on some tea!”

She brought out the tea, a cookie plate too.

  They talked and they laughed

  Like good friends do.

Chatting with friends over cookies and tea

  Is the best kind of day!

  Don't you agree?

I looked through several pattern books for blocks to represent the characters and other elements in the poem.  I even found a block called "Tea for Four"!  The challenge, then, was to draft them to finish 5".   

Thank goodness for a stash of scraps!  Bits of the brown fabric were needed to make the fourth "T" in the "Tea for Four" block.  I just happened to find some squares of the brown fabric there!  

 

 

Sashing and cornerstones completed this small quilt.  It was just a fun little project (that took over a year to complete!).