I should have taken a photo of the snake pit of strips before I sorted them into colour families - that was true chaos!
I had quite a collection of 1 1/4" strips and 2 1/2" strips, it turned out.
I'm carrying on working my way through them still. These nine purple blocks look fab, don't they? This heart shape is a happy accident. I'll play around with the layout, but I like the idea of setting them within some plainer fabric pieces as a quilt top.
The way forward for these 14 pink pieces is less clear. Obviously I still need to press and trim the blocks with the narrow strips, but after that I might mix them with another colour or two to get a reasonable size quilt.
I'm not sure whether I'll keep them all the same orientation in the final quilt or not. Playing with scale, colour and orientation sounds like a big task, so I might limit one or two of those variables when I get to it.
For the moment, though, I need to start work on my blue blocks!
You have been busy!! I have a few drawers of strips too, as soon as I get some sewing time (don’t laugh!) I’ll try and use some up - unless you can use them??
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