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Old 03-21-2021, 12:40 PM
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nanac
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Default Finally did it.

Somehow, I ended up with a half a laundry basket of precut squares - 2 inches, 2 1/2, 3, and 4 inch squares. I have always wanted to do a postage stamp quilt, but putting together thousands of squares was intimidating to me.
Finally, I decided it's never gonna get done if I don't get it started. So, one day, I separated all the squares into like sizes. Although it is not going to be a "traditional" PS quilt, one day I sewed all of 2 inch squares together.. The next day, I made chains of 3 and 4, and then chain of 7. Another day, I sewed the strips into blocks of 7 strips (49 in each block), which comes out to about 10 1/2 inch blocks..
This makes it much more manageable for me, and have about 40 of the 81 blocks done. I try to sew 1-2 blocks every day, press them and put them aside. At this rate, I think I'll be done maybe by end of next month. Even if it doesn't get done by then, at least I finally got it started.
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