Quilting

I am still undecided about my quilting abilities.  I am currently working with my friend, Melissa, to complete 2 quilts.  The plan is to complete one full-sized quilt for each of us.  While we are definitely enjoying our time together, I think we may have made a poor choice for our first quilt.

We have decided to make a mosaic quilt.  So, the quilt will consist of a bunch of little squares put together in no particular order to create a beautiful, colorful masterpiece.  It is turning out nice.  But, it is taking forever.

First, we cut the material into 2 1/2 inch strips and sewed 3 of the strips together.

We then cut off a 2 1/2  inch strip of this group to create smaller strips.

Three of these smaller strips were then sewn together to create a block.  

Finally, four of these blocks were sewn together to create the mosaic block.  

The completion of the larger blocks was bitter-sweet.  I was happy with the fact that the seams on the blocks are, for the most part, lining up nicely.  However, after spending three Saturdays working on this and sewing all of the large mosaic blocks together, I have found that we are two large blocks short for even 1 quilt.  We are making 2. 

We already have this Saturday scheduled for quilt making.  So, I guess we go back to sewing little strips together to make bigger strips and so on...