so to clarify some things when I am working on my strips,
I stick a pin on the end that I am starting at to identify it, it is easy to get them turned around, and some times matching them back up is hard as they tend to blend pretty good once you start sewing them, and then I pin the rest of the strip, now if you have small blocks this may be hard, you may have to do one or two at a time,
I like to work on more than one strip of pieces at a time so I put two pins in the end of the second identifying it as such,
one pin
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two pins
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two strips all pinned
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