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The Quilt Show Puzzle: "Flying Beauty" by David Sirota

CHALLENGE: Do the puzzle of David Sirota's quilt, "Flying Beauty", using the 36 piece rotating choice. Then see if you beat Capt'n John's first try at the rotating puzzles. John tells you his time in the comments. We don't think you will have a hard time beating his effort.

 

To rotate a piece:
 

1) With a mouse: Place the cursor over the piece and move the mouse wheel up (left rotation) or down (right rotation).

2) TouchPads: Or, press the left (left rotation) or right (right rotation) arrow key.

3) With touch: Tap on the piece and then tap on the appeared left or right rotation icon.

     

    Flying Beauty is a paper pieced quilt that features a combination of two classic blocks, the Flying Geese and the New York Beauty. But in order to create the smaller circles of Flying Geese, David added an extra bit of negative space to his curve around the combined block. By doing this, when he put four of his blocks together for the quilt, an extra circle of flying geese was born.

     

    Click Here to see the Full Quilt.

     

    See more of David's quilts in Learn Paper Piecing with the Maven, David Sirota | Adapting Your Studio For Change with Lilo Bowman.

     

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 36 Pieces Non-Rotating

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 289 Pieces Non-Rotating

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 36 Pieces Rotating

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 100 Pieces Rotating

    FlyingBeautybyDavidSirota - 289 Pieces Rotating

     

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    Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

     

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    Michelle Lynch
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    13:33 and I never look at the picture of the quilt before building the puzzle.

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    lehab375
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    I got it done in 8 min 30 seconds. This is only the second time I've done a rotating puzzle. If it had been any more than 36 pieces, it would have taken much longer. I like the 100 piece non rotating the best, although the 98 or 99 piece non...

    I got it done in 8 min 30 seconds. This is only the second time I've done a rotating puzzle. If it had been any more than 36 pieces, it would have taken much longer. I like the 100 piece non rotating the best, although the 98 or 99 piece non rotating are not too bad, either. Every once in a while I'll do the 289 or more piece puzzles but the pieces are really small. Now that I have new glasses, it has not been too bad.

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    Maralyn Morgan
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    I did it in 9 minutes and 49 seconds. Totally amazed with myself.

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    Nancy Vaillancourt
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    10 minutes and 36 seconds. I usually do the 100 piece non-rotating option, but the rotating option is definitely more challenging! Thanks for the challenge, John!

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    JMin
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    10 minutes 33 seconds. But I did do the 100 piece non-rotating last night.

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    Mary Ann Hayre
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    28 minutes and I didn't look at the quilt first, sorry Cap'n John.

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    Sharon Decker
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    10 minutes, but my cat helped.

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    jcrowell
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    And I didn't look at the quilt first, either. Sorry, Cap'n John.

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    jcrowell
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    18 minutes

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    John Anderson
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    Okay, I am totally embarrassed. I want to lie, but it actually took me 50 minutes to complete the 36 piece rotating puzzle. I am sure that expert puzzlers can do it in 20 minutes, but I was totally lost and didn't look at the quilt before trying...

    Okay, I am totally embarrassed. I want to lie, but it actually took me 50 minutes to complete the 36 piece rotating puzzle. I am sure that expert puzzlers can do it in 20 minutes, but I was totally lost and didn't look at the quilt before trying to put it together. Ouch.

    Okay, now it is your turn to hurt my feelings. How long did it take you?

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