Well, today, I'll finish pressing the last of my starched fabric, then finish cutting the background fabric into 320 triangle pieces plus binding and borders. Then start arranging the triangles up on the design wall because my sister and I couldn't decide which of the 8 fabrics should go where on this pattern called A Cog in a Wheel. Also, I'll be doing this in paper pieced mode. I have all the papers printed and separated as the page came with 2 patterns each. There's 8 sections per block, 20 pieced blocks plus 16 outer blocks. Some are just plain blocks and 8 of them have a snowball on one corner. I've decided to do HST on the 4 outer corner blocks as I didn't think I had enough of the background fabric at the beginning of all this. I also changed the border and binding fabric to what I'm using on as the backing fabric. I'm also going to use the leftover scraps from the 8 fabrics for the flange on the binding. I've made the flange binding once before and really liked how it looked. Here's a photo of the pattern I'm working on today and thru the weekend. The recipent asked for metal type fabrics so I'm using light grey for the background. A multi colored fabric with copper, silver, gold, grey and black, then the rest of the fabrics follow in darker greys, black with silver, copper, copper with gold, gold, etc. The backing is a mottled black/grey.