Paper Pieced Flying Geese

I don’t normally paper piece blocks.  I am well aware of the complaints for paper piecing blocks: 

• Lots of fabric waste 
• Invariably doing something wrong and having to take out tiny stitches 

So of course I have taken out and redone numerous pieces as I do all the things that don’t work.  I worked on the theory that it is just a matter of practice and then you quit trying to do it wrong.  Once I got past the “do it wrong” stage, it wasn’t too bad.  I did smile at some of the author’s notes that led me to believe she didn’t enjoy the process of paper piecing this block.  The real tell was she only did one block and this in a book where almost all of the projects are twin size or larger. 

I bought a ream of 8 1/2 x 11 inch unprinted newsprint a while back.  I do like making lots of HST triangles using paper.  I tried drafting a pattern, but I couldn’t figure out how to get the geese to  not point in a circle and still be uniform.  So I did use someone else’s pattern out of a library book. All I had to do was copy the pattern, scan my copy and print out on newsprint.  The publisher is canny.  The patterns are printed in red and don’t scan or copy easily.  I needed to copy the pattern using a ruler and a pen on tracing paper.