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I'm guessing you've tried all these suggestions by now and don't need any more advice?

So I won't give any on the SEWING/BOWING , but I did just think to add this: if you decide to subcut your long strips to shorter ones before sewing again, make sure to measure your sections so each is long enough for the block size.
It'd be a shame to cut willy-nilly and then find out some are short by 1/2" . But you probably knew that, so forgive me if my comment insults your intelligence. I consider myself bright, but I've done some really dumb things by not thinking. Many of those things are measuring/cutting related! Just want to save a lot of time and aggravation for you if I can.