Quilt WiP - It's still the 80s

 I haven't touched this quilt for a bit over a year - Jan 2020.  I lost my 'sew-jo' somewhere in the never-ending parade of masks last spring and it has been reluctant to come back.   But I made a resolution to move forward on my quilting and decided early last week that the best way to do that is to allocate a specific time (namely Saturday and Sunday afternoons) to the task.   I promised myself that I would set up my sewing machine on the dining room table Friday after dinner and then sew on Saturday and Sunday, then put the sewing away for the work week to keep everything in my work space (currently the corner where the living room and dining room come together) nice and tidy.   

What do you know, I worked on my quilt!   I had finished all the blocks and all the pieced sashings (though I had not cut the solid sashings) when I put it away last year.   I will cut those sashings as I come to them in the assembly.  This quilt is not put together in rows due to the asymmetric setting.  It's not even put together in quadrants, but instead in seven large areas that are then seamed together in a way the makes sure that there are no set in corners.   The sections are designated A-G

I actually started with section  B, which is the center and center upper area.  While this one is the largest area wise, it is also the one of the simpler areas in construction, with only one real sashing strip and very few places where corners meet or points are a concern.  I trimmed the outer round of the log cabin blocks down so that the bright rose would not overpower the blue so much.  They were a bit wonky, so that also made that less of an issue (and I hope the rest will quilt out).  The lighting makes it look much worse than it is, btw.  And I didn't smooth out the wrinkles at all, as I was losing what little light a grey winter day provided in my north facing bedroom!.

It's going to be huge.  The length of this section is about 2/3 of the length of the quilt, and between 1/3 and 1/2 of the width.  And it almost covers a double bed mattress top.  It will be nearly 90 x 90.   Bedspread sized.

Next I will try to work on Part A.  It has a much more complex layout with sections of pieced sashing.