I laid out the big squares without the sashing (little squares).
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It’s wonderful.
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Thanks! It’s pretty wild to look at.
I just sorted all the sashing squares into piles, hoping to avoid repeating fabrics too close together. And, I realized that I had cut about 75 too many because my math was sloppy. 
Which is fine, because I was going to make a scrappy squares quilt out of the remainder of my not-quite-yardage stash anyway.
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@AudiobookLover what a lovely collage. And thank you for reminding me I need to get on my Mother’s day card making.
And @tendstowardschaos , this quilt personifies your name beautifully! Wow, what a lot of work! The predominance of red and navy helps unify it. And the pinwheel blocks give a nice spinning anchor.
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May Prompt
Start a new project:
I got started on my mom’s new light lap quilt. I raided her stash…she doesn’t sew anymore…and grabbed some bright tropical and flower-based prints. I’ve added some of my own stash plus some batiks. I’m working with 8" squares and will do a 4 x 5 or 6 square layout, or 20 to 24 finished blocks. I don’t want to get to fussy with the blocks, let the fabrics speak for themselves and so will just create them as I feel at the time. I’ve started with a couple of “blues”.
And more to come!
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I have done a lot of quilting in the last few days. I made four, and gave them their own post here
They look very pretty all together. They are all going to their new home tomorrow.
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These all look so soft and calming. Love the shirt fabrics.
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What a beautiful display!
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A few more added to mom’s quilt. I’m beginning to think I may blind her! I really, really don’t like the orange one. I made a mistake cutting the colors…redo time.
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I like the orange one! Pops, it’s unique & beautiful
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I like them all!
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I have all the borders on my quilt squares. I had to overlap them an inch or three to pin them all up, but you get the idea. I’m going to try to get them assembled this weekend.
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I got the top all assembled! I’ll have to borrow my MIL’s living room floor to get this thing pinned, though. 
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So awesome!!
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Thank you!
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-I marionberries submit this as my May entry.
Since I am trying to match to bright colors and the month, well I am one month ahead…so my May offering is a June theme…I couldn’t resist making the butterfly block a butterfly. Whimsical.
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Haha…love it!
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Holy moly that’s a lot of scraps! Congrats on getting the top assembled!
@marionberries, your colors are perfect for a June theme and the butterfly is so fun and cheery!
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I am putting the binding on the wine glass collage I made for my mom. It called for a quarter inch finished binding (the original strips were cut at 1.25”). I worried that it would be difficult to work with such a thin binding and considered going a little bit bigger, but in the end, I decided to follow the quarter inch instructions. Note to self - I need to simply listen to my instincts in the future! This binding has been such a pain! But the good news is 1. I’m halfway finished binding the quilt, 2. I now know to never go the quarter inch route in the future (I think I’ve used a 1.5” strip before and didn’t run into issues, so I was thinking that is now the smallest I’ll go - but now I can’t remember for certain if that was the size I used 
) and 3. Most importantly, it looks fairly decent!
What’s the thinnest binding you guys have used without issue?
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