Design Wall Monday

Look at me posting a design wall photo 2 weeks in a row! Life has slowed down a bit and I am able to get to my sewing machine sometimes. And the Laundry Basket mystery has piqued my interest, so I am sewing along with Edyta Sitar.

We are on step #3 this week, and I did my flying geese blocks in 6 different blue fabrics just for fun. Here are all the centre blocks on my design wall. 

I sewed the geese blocks into sets of 2 instead of 3 so that I could get the seams going the way I wanted. Then I decided to go ahead and sew the centre rows together.

This is how it looks now. Rows 6 to 10 are sewn together and the seams pressed in opposite directions. I pin a little note to each row (on the right hand side) and indicate which direction the seams are pressed on that row. We have made 4 other square in a square blocks that are in the outside corner areas, so they are set aside on the bottom right corner and also labelled with a paper tag.

I know where the blocks for each step go because Edyta shows us a block layout at each step. I hope I don't regret my decision to jump ahead and start sewing rows! 

I made the Laundry Basket 2021 mystery quilt completely from scraps and loved how it turned out, so I am semi confident that it is going to be a good decision to sew the rows as we go along. It will make the quilt construction easier at the end if all goes well. Fingers crossed!

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