The Largest Quilt She's Ever Made - Part 5

First, some photos from last week further illustrating all the trimming I was doing.

It started with some basic trimming I knew I'd need to do after piecing the squares. See all those bits of extra width? So I squared those up, and thought 'Yay! I'm good to go! Let's start piecing blocks!'

 WRONG! I found that after squaring all of those up that they were 1/4"-ish smaller than their non-pieced counterparts, which meant all of those other squares needed to be trimmed down to match. Grrr.

 So last week I got through that mess, and happily left the project at home while I had a weekend away with my husband in Park City. It was fabulous.
And Monday I jumped right back in full force. As of last night I had ALL of my blocks pieced. There are 6 different blocks, 4 square and 2 rectangle to offset the squares when piecing the top. This morning I had to do a bit of squaring up, but thankfully they all came out about the same size. Not perfect, but definitely workable.

 And so I started laying the quilt out. Last night I shoved a ton of stuff into the corner, stacking it up, giving myself as much floor space as possible. It is nowhere near enough. That is about half of the quilt laying out on the floor. So I'm working in segments and am glad it is such a scrappy quilt and I don't have to worry about what blocks go where as long as it ends up the right size, which so far it will with the help of a simple border from some of my leftover squares.

 And here is a peek of some of it all sewn together. =)