pookieookie, I love your 30's prints. They make for very cute blocks.
Thanks everyone for the compliments. I really appreciate the encouragement. I'm not paperpiecing as I've only tried that a couple of times before. I didn't want to use this quilt as practice for a new method. Instead, I'm using only templates. I've found the method that AbbyQuilts did the tute on to be working very accurately for me. I know it will be a pain to use templates for the setting squares and sashings, but it's gone so well so far, I think it will be worth it in the end to do the entire quilt top this way. I figure that the time I'm spending tracing and cutting by hand is making up for time I'd be unsewing otherwise. BTW, I began quilting 20 years ago, so I've had lots of practice. My goal is to make this my most accurate quilt yet and potentially show-worthy.
Keep plugging away everyone! I love seeing all of your blocks and am already imagining how gorgeous each of these quilts will be! :-D :-D
Here's the link for the template tutorial by AbbyQuilts:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57961-1.htm