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Old 02-17-2019, 06:31 PM
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Friday1961
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Here's a photo . I've moved some blocks since this was taken, namely the middle area where there is a too heavy concentration of the red and white stripes . I'll probably make more changes before I began to sew the blocks together, compulsive as I am about this.

Meanwhile, I've numbered and pinned the units so I can lay them out again in this configuration. Should anyone care to make comments or suggestions, I've numbered the 12 blocks (made up of 4 small blocks) as #1 beginning at the top left, moving horizontally to the right, then second row would begin with #4, third row beginning with #7, and so on. With the smaller units in each block, from left to right: a, b, c, d. Hope that makes sense.

I've realized that in the photo some of the white strips don't appear to be the same width. They are, though, except for one block -- the first "block" in Row 2, which would be #4. The strips in those units are slightly narrower, which is why those units are in the same "block". I inadvertently cut those white strips a quarter inch narrower, had made the units before I realized it, and was unwilling to redo them. The other white strips are all the same width.

What I've realized from this is that I'd also like a strip quilt in which each color strip is the same width and in the same place, so that each block would form a secondary box-in-a-box illusion pattern. But matching seams could be a nightmare!
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