Kicks & Geese

Hey gang! If you follow me on Instagram (@13spools), you'll have seen some of my progress on the Kicks quilt.

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This pattern was designed by the one and only Latifah Saafir, and you can buy the pattern here. It's a paper pieced project, but if you aren't familiar with that technique, she provides ample instruction within the pattern.

I plan on putting this in my boys' playroom (photos here), so I dug through my stash to find an acid lime green fabric I've been hoarding for awhile now. I could have sworn it was a Kona cotton, and tagged allllll of my IG posts accordingly, but......looks like it is actually Michael Miller cotton couture in Lime.

#FAIL

Ah well. Now we know! It coordinates nicely with the "P" :)

I've been working on the background for awhile now. I wanted to work completely from my stash, so I decided to limit the kicks to 4 blocks (it takes up a decent amount of background fabric!) and am going to create a bunch of flying geese for the background.

[vls_gf_album id="6498"] I tried to go scrappy....guys I really did try! But of course that wasn't going to happen with my extreme type-A self, so I'm creating an ombre from top to bottom, moving from light to dark. Here's my IG post on my efforts towards this end:

"When I decided I wanted to do flying geese as the background for my #kicksquilt by #latifahsaafirstudios, I figured out I would need 12 rows, each with 24 geese. So I laid out fabric meticulously (aka, the only way I like to!): 6 fabrics per row, 4 pieces of each fabric. A few fabrics appear in more than one row. Laying it out ahead of time ensured a lovely #ombre effect.

Then I take one row's worth of fabric over to my #sewing table and piece up the four sections if that row. Wash, rinse, repeat, try not to die.

I know there are some other Type A #quilters out there who relate to this!"

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So I'm chugging along on these 288 flying geese. Slowly.

But it's gonna be worth it!!