Monday, 23 October 2006

I've finished cutting out the squares -- all 2,880 of them -- for the main body of my postage stamp quilt. Further scraps I aquire will go into the border of the quilt.

I initially organized the squares by color in quart-sized ziplock bags. All the reds were together, all the blues, all the greens, etc. I had one additional bag with lights in it because I don't have many light colored squares and wanted to treat them separately. I wanted each color (and the lights) to be evenly distributed in the quilt, so I cleared off my dinning table one evening and made 20 piles (one for each 12x12 block I want to end up with).

Then I started with reds and distributed all those squares in the piles, then orange, then yellow, etc. until they were all distributed. Then I distributed the lights. 20 piles of 144 squares each. 2,880 squares. I put each set of piles into a ziplock of its own. Here they are:

I'm really overwhelmed. That is a lot of sewing.

Added to clarify: Each of the ziplock bags above holds somewhere between 144-150 squares. In each bag there are 14 little piles of 10 squares and 1 pile of 4 squares. There are a few additional squares in each bag just in case I find that I don't like some of the squares for some reason (and also because I had extra, so in they went).