The Center Squares Unite

I just completed assembling the center square for my Cherry Irish Chain. It may be difficult to judge by the pictures, but this thing is huge! It makes it very hard to handle. My next step is to piece the borders together and then attach them to the now-very-large center square.

Of course, Chloe is there as the first row hits the floor!

 She's so stinking cute, how can I yell at her?

Here I was lining up the blocks so they were all sewn it the right direction. It's no fun pulling them apart and reattaching because the blocks are turned the wrong way. By doing this, I didn't have that happen once!                                                                                                                                                          

It took three days of hard core sewing to put it all together once the blocks were finished. Next will be the borders. Since this is so large now (it will be a king) It's very cumbersome to handle on the sewing machine. The best thing is to put the borders all together first and then sew them onto it.

I am going to mitre the corners as well. If you know anything about quilting, you know this can be a little tricky, but is so well-worth it for the effect. Wish me luck!

And of course, Chloe had to test it out!