Assembly Line Piecing

Hello Everyone,

 

Yesterday afternoon I knocked out ten little Courthouse Steps blocks using an assembly line process.  In this photo, the blocks are all lined up waiting for their next "light" strip.  

 

Now I selected the next dark color that I wanted to add.  I don't select all of the darks at one time for a block.   I wait and see what it looks like before I select another color.  I don't cut "logs".  I string piece, and then trim.

From brown, to yellow, to purple and pink......it all works.  My fabrics have the same look and feel of Reproduction or Civil War fabrics.  I have used hundreds of strips so far, and I keep cutting more.

I trim as I go so each block is the correct measurement.

Someone once told me that reproduction fabrics were too dull.  I completely disagree.

By the end of the afternoon, I had ten blocks completed and ready for another row.

It's going to be a rainy day up here in the woods.  I say it's good quilting weather.

Soon,
Lynn