Krisb, I am far more concerned about the fall than I am about the fabric!
Hope you feel better soon. Falls can be very hard on the body and spirit both.
Still working on cutting the sashing fabric for the juvenile/confetti quilt. I'm making notes to myself as I go although I don't typically duplicate projects, some stuff is good to know. Originally I didn't think it would matter on the size of my sashing prints and so I'm using 6-6.5" squares cut into 3" rectangles. Realized yesterday that with my block size the 6.5" cuts are exactly correct for 2 per block. Of course the blocks are all mixed up in the cuts now but I have a solution or at least a work around...
My math mind doesn't work as well as it once did and I've never based my quilting on precut squares before so I was having a hard time getting to the number of pieces I would need for the sashing. Thought about how I like to put on my sashing as an L shape -- I'll need two rectangles on each side of my juvenile focus fabrics (1 square), those will be trimmed down and don't need to be exact. Then I'll need two rectangles (another square) for the bottom, which ideally would be cut 6.5" and would exactly fit the 12" of block plus one side of sashing. I will need an additional 1 square for each of the top/side blocks sashing. So with 30 focus blocks as in my inspiration piece, I need 60+11 squares to do the sashing cut into rectangles.
Now, that I explained my mental exercise I should mention that the two rectangles per block will not cover that last column of sashing. I can either put in a half piece, or instead of putting on the sashing as an L around the block, I will put the horizontal strip on each row using the varied sizing making sure none of the block/seams intersect and not worry about it
It's not like I don't have a spare bit of fabric or two around if I need an extra.
So today I need to pull an additional 30 or so squares or so and cut them in half. I'm allowing two squares of fabric (4 rectangles) and they can't be one of the focus squares.