Lancaster Diamonds

My Lancaster Diamond project bubbled back up to the top of my consciousness this week.  

I spread out all my blocks to see where I'd left off back in February.  Hmmm, sort of in the Hot Mess category here, aren't we?  The blocks are completely bias edged, so I'm trying not to handle them much, and I'm reluctant to pin them up on the design curtain.  Everything has been starched for as much stabilization as possible, and onward I go.

Because of the various-sized diamond shapes, it's challenging for me to visualize the layout and to anticipate the final quilt dimensions.  I'm feeling unusually dyslexic -- normally I just look at a project and the arithmetic finishes itself in my mind in a minute.  And I was a bit surprised to realize that the sashing pieces are two different directional mirror-image cuts.  (Which I realized after I cut a bunch all the same. Sigh.)  I'm going to need to pay close attention and take cutting and sewing slowly until I get into a groove with this.

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