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The center of the quilt will have 64 blocks (8 x 8).
I cut 32 squares of the background fabric and 32 squares of the miscellaneous colors.
1/2 of the background squares just stay as they are. So YAY! 16 blocks finished!
The other 16 neutral blocks will become 32 triangles, which will blend with 32 colored triangles. That's 32 blocks paired, pinned, numbered, & ready to sew.
The other 32 colored triangles will be joined together to make two-color blocks. Sadly, those
16 blocks are in limbo until the others are sewn. I want to do as much sewing as possible with squares instead of triangles, because the bias is going to be stretchy. If I need a matching pair, I'll sew two squares using Tiger Tape as a guide. If it's a singleton - I only need one square with that particular color combo - then I'm trying to keep one of the fabrics whole to minimize stretching. It's a little bit more confusing to not have everything in triangles, but my organizational skills are way ahead of my sewing skills, so it's worth the trade off to have all my seams flat and even.
So here's my plan:
- Monday - stitch up ALL the blocks already pinned and maybe cut, press, and use the "extra" triangles from those blocks to line out the rest of the blocks.
- Tuesday - finish blocks and assemble the center panel. And buy backing fabric.
- Wednesday - add border, piece the backing, and make the quilt sandwich
- Thursday - prep the binding & use it to tie the sandwich into a birthday bundle (since there's no WAY I'm getting this thing quilted before Friday - we're talking a king size quilt here! The quilting alone is gonna take some time!)
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