Old 11-29-2025, 07:36 AM
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Iceblossom
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Break time! Need a fresh cup of tea and time to offer some sympathy for the hubby who doesn't appreciate the snow, even when it doesn't impact him. It is snowing quite a bit! We have been very surprised and pleased with our local jurisdiction and their snow plows, our in the middle of nowhere subdivision just got plowed for the first time -- to a big cheer from the hubby!

Here's a picture of the geese units being oversized. Keep in mind that for me Pink is White on White and Black is the Neutral. I think my vision would be easier to keep track of if I kept white as the neutral. The switching to black (while still using white) really throws me off. I think we had a couple of other people using black as a background -- how are you doing? Maybe your colors make it easier for you to keep straight.

My usual issue with geese is that top seam. I cut the large triangles as directed. For the small triangles if I just rounded up Bonnie's measurements to the inch, that would probably do me just fine -- but I'd have just slivers to trim off. Slivers are fine and dandy if I'm going precise, but I want to be able to slice and dice and sew with wild abandon, and then trim quickly and easily with just a ruler placement and a couple of strokes. So I added an extra 1/4" to the 1/8th round-up for easy cutting.

Top unit next to my open notebook showing my color-key is the trimmed version. Middle is untrimmed, and bottom just shows how I "center" the over-large triangle.

edit: darn picture turned on me when posting... So reverse the order of the units.
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