progress on world wide quilt

quite some time ago me and my friend started a quilt. we both cut out 4.5 inch squares of printed fabrics. we kept one of each fabric for each of us. then we traded the squares of printed fabric we had. this friend of mine lives on the other side of the world, so all our trading has been done in the mail, and most of the planning as well. we decided to use a grey linen to compliment the pattern squares. so once that was all cut out it was time to sew.

this is the collection of squares at my sewing machine sewing single squares together into pairs.

then i sew the 2's into 4's. the nice thing about quilting is how quickly it progresses when you are actually just sewing. its like making production glass once all the decisions are made you can just work and keep busy.

there is not much planning at the stage, just making sure not to sew 2 of the same patterns into one set of 4. 

the real planning comes into play when you layout the whole quilt to then sew it all together. i wanted to lay it out to make sure that i had the colours mixed up, and that there wasn't a concentration of too many lights, or darks, or pinks in one area.

i put up on the wall a flannel sheet from the bed and then pinned the 4 tile squares onto it in the layout for the quilt. this way i can stand back and make sure that there are no double ups or funny patterns in the layout. this also helps me keep otto off the quilt.
he is happy watching from the bed.

i will leave this up for a couple days to check it out and then later this week start sewing the 4's into 16's. and then put it all together. so far i think it is looking pretty good.

it will be interesting to see how different or the same the 2 finished quilts are.  we still need to decide on backing fabric and binding, so lots of work left to do.