Postage Stamp Quilt again.

It was a grey and at times drizzly day today, but for most of it I was inside sewing, so all was well!

It was a "Saturday stitchers" meeting where people work on their own projects. For the past 3 meetings I've been working on the hand piecing. But my eyes have been a little tired recently and I thought I'd give them a rest. Last night I looked inside the wardrobe where all my sewing lives and was a bit overwhelmed by the number of projects on the go, but as I am now looking forward I decided to take one and work out what stage I had reached.

Here are the contents of the 2 boxes - strips and sets in various stages

Take the strip sets - cut into 3 inch strips.
Match two strips together - one ending in prints, one in plains, sew down both sides , then cut down the middle.

Iron open.
Match together 2 pairs, then match together 2 sets of four strips.

So at the moment I have 32 blocks of 8 x 17 squares.

So apart from joining two of these together and the attaching the 17th strip I have almost done 16 of the 25 blocks I think need.

I need to work out what size quilt I want to make - the original intention was to do 25 blocks 17" sq - to make the quilt 85" x 85". But I need to just mull that over a for a while.

In the meantime I will continue to sort through any remaining strips sets and strips that I have already cut, and assemble more sets.

I don't have a permanent sewing area set up at the moment - so it may be a while before I can carry on, but I have been spurred on by todays efforts.