Burgundy and sand coloured quilt

When I made the two blocks for this quilt, I got the itch to continue sewing it!  The blocks are looking really nice.  Other than the cutting of scraps, which takes a bit longer then cutting yardage, the units themselves are going together easily.

Since I was playing in the burgundy scraps and knew the sizes I needed, I proceeded to cut out the triangles I needed for all the burgundy hourglass units.  After sewing them together, I then cut out all the burgundy squares I needed for the nine patches.  All the rest of the burgundy units will be coming from strings.  These two units are for the alternating blocks.  I need 18 of the alternating blocks.

I also made some headway on the straight string units to go with the units above.  I won't be able to make the blocks just yet, until I cut out all the sand colour squares that run down the centre of the nine patches.  There is some progress happening though, so that makes me happy.

Thursday/New Years day, my daughter came down to my sewing space to hang out and draw some more of her embroidery designs for the Snow Day quilt she is working on.  While she did that, I made more of the above sting units.  I needed a total of 68 (four are already in a block).  I've put all of this aside for a bit, as I needed to get started on this weeks required blocks.  More on those in another post.

Take care everyone.