Progress Report on the "Almost Granny Square" blocks

I talked about this quilt last week or so. Without looking it up, I’d have to say within the last week or 10 days anyway.

I ‘m going to make this layout. As someone pointed out last time, if I turn the blocks so they are up and down instead of as they are shown in the diagram, I won’t have to deal with matching the seams. So of course I will do that!

Thanks so much for the idea. I hope I would have figured that out before starting to put it together, but maybe not. I’m not always the swiftest. :) I feel stupid that I hadn’t though of that already!

I figured it up and I will need 64 blocks. Yes. 64.

These are 10.5” finished blocks. I’m using a variety of whites as the background of the whites. I dug through my bag of 2” strips and found some white strips.

I also used a whole lot of squares I had been collecting in a zipper bag of these blocks from my Lori Holt fabrics. I need them in groups of 12, 8, 4 and 1. I used up all the 12s and 8s so I have had to start cutting. So once again, I dug through the bags of 2” strips I had handy and found colors that I thought worked with the squares I had and the color scheme I was aiming for.

I mostly am going for “happy”.

Here is what I’ve done so far.

It’s 33 blocks! This puts me one block over halfway!

But I’m actually well over halfway since I have the last squares ready to go. In other words, I’ve made piles of 12, 8, 4 and 1 squares. I do need to cut lots of white strips still.

I’ll find another bag of 2” strips and hope I can locate some more whites. I can always cut up new yardage, but I’d rather use up some strips. I do have a lot of white on whites yardage that are in relatively small pieces, however, and I really don’t mind cutting those up for this top.

One thing I’ve done with these blocks is once they are all pressed, I put them in my container after I’ve pinned them in groups of 10.

If the group has a clip - then it isn’t yet 10 blocks. If it has a safety pin at the top, it is 10. This way I can tell at a glance how many are finished.

But in truth, the last few blocks need not be sewn together complately as I need to use only half a block for some of the edge pieces. You can check out the layout shown above.

So I’m working hard on finishing up these blocks. I feel like I’m in slow motion, somehow, but I’m not really. It is just that sometimes things are being finished while other times I just have to make blocks. Finishes will come eventually!

This top will be part of my 2” series of quilts! It’s been a while since I made one of those tops!

Thanks so much for coming with me on this journey!

Have a geat day wherever you are reading this.

Becky Petersen1 Comment