So. 

How do you turn stacks and stacks (and stacks) of 2” strips into a quilt inspired by those crocheted granny square blankets? Let me tell you…it was a journey. When I started working on this quilt, I knew it would be involved…but my ambition got in the way of doing the math of involved x 3. I didn’t think… I just dove in and started cutting fabric for 3 quilts. Seeing that each quilt consists of…

• 128 2” x” 12 ½” strips
• 128 2” x” 10” strips
• 128 2” x” 7 ½” strips
• 128 2” x” 5” strips
• 128 2” x” 2 ½” strips
• 64  2” x” 15” strips

…I guess it was better that I leapt before I looked. [grimacing emoji]

Anyway. 

This quilt (from the April 2013 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting magazine) involves taking the 2” strips mentioned above and:

1. sewing them into strip sets A and B
2. cross-cutting both strip sets into 2” segments
3. matching up the segments from strip set A with segments from strip set B
4. sewing the segments to each other so that each row has 6 squares
5. and then sewing those rows into a complete block…
6. …and each quilt has 64 blocks and I committed to 3 quilts, so that’s doing steps 1-5 192 times.

Check out the photos to see a block come together!

So we went from this:

To this:

A big mess of scraps and joy…I love it already. I hope you do too!