I press as I go, saving the trimming until I am ready to put the quilt together. Yes, trimming is tiring and boring, but I try to not do it all at once, no room for mistakes here. Usually I make four units of the same color, dividing the quilt in quadrants, laying out one quadrant, changing the layout until I like the layout. The other three quadrants will mirror the first. This works great, unless I am making a two color quilt. I use a box to keep my units secure and clean.

When I’m working on something with a million like units, I will cut everything first. Then I sew until my DH gets home. Then after dinner, while watching tv together, I will press and cut apart the long strings of units. Of course I love my AccuQuilt, which makes the cutting easy, and no need to square up.