The project I'm working on now is my patchwork skirt. I'm making a large square peice of fabric (70in x 70in) which will be cut into the skirt pieces. That's 14 squares by 14 squares, in other words, 196 squares! That's a lot of cutting and lots of sewing of squares together. I've discovered that patchwork is done out of thriftiness (using up scrap fabric) and not ease. I've used up 2/3 of my scrap bag, but its bunches of work, especially the cutting. Today however, I was able to whip out 7 rows with fairly little effort. See? Each strip is folded in half for easier photographing



My biggest problem is stressing about the randomness of the patches. I mean, the whole point is that it be random and that means me not organizing them into randomness. It just means that they are randomly sewn together. This is VERY very hard for me to let go. I want to count of how many of each patch I have, then divide them equally between each strip and space them equally. Usually I'm not a perfectionist, at all. For whatever reason, this project is bringing it out big time. 90% of this fabric is designer... Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, Robert Kaufman, Joel Dewberry, etc. I'm really glad that I'm getting full use of this very expensive fabric that I was addicted to for a few months :)