These free instructions offer an idea for making flying geese block units in a very fast and easy way.

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Easy Flying Geese Method

The third and final lesson of the Quilt Block Pillow instructions is here.
You will learn how to finish the pillow, and there are some tips for getting a professional finish.

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How to Make a Quilt Block Pillow, part 3

This is the second lesson of the Quilt Block Pillow instructions, complete with pictures.
It describes how to make a pillow back that allows easy removal for laundering.

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How to Make a Quilt Block Pillow, part 2

Here is a great idea for using up orphan quilt blocks, or test blocks that you have left over, etc.

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How to Make a Quilt Block Pillow, part 1

Ingenuity gives us lots of our favorite quilting tools. Here are a couple of ideas you might have fun trying, and you never know, you may find an answer to a problem!

Take a spring clip clothespin apart. Use half of it as a seam presser. It works great! The rounded edge that clips the clothes will slide right over your fabric and make a nice press. Be sure the wood is smooth, though. Some of the made in china clothespins are pretty splintery.

When you have to rip seams, if you end up with the hundreds of little cut threads on everything you can use one of the lint rollers to pick them up. If you open your ripped seam and the cut threads are still in the fabric, but loose, a lint roller or piece of masking tape will pull them all right out.

Keep a staple remover handy for taking buttons off the cards. Those metal wire loops they use are easy to open with the staple remover.

Try using a piece of the Duck brand shelf liner under your sewing machine if it slips on the table when you sew. It also makes a good “gripper” if you let it extend out to the right of your machine; scissors, pencils, bobbins, and all those other items that seem to roll away will stay put. This is a soft plastic kind of liner.

Add your own ideas in the comments section!