Geese

Over a year ago I completed a double size quilt from geese square made during the 1930's by a twelve year old girl from a NH farm. The squares were calico geese button stitched on heavy muslin. I enjoyed finishing the piece for the sewer who lives in a nearby assisted living home and her family.
I have worked on many antique animal motif quilts before - butterflies, scottie dogs- but this was the first goose quilt. SO I made a little plastic template of one of the geese.
This baby quilt is made from the template. I choose a favorite yellow print on a heavy muslin. For quilting I outlined the geese and echoed 1/4" inside the geese, outlined the seams and started to crosshatch. The muslin was so heavy I cut the crosshatching short. It was like quilting through cardboard.
I plan to make more of these animal baby quilts.