In this box -

Is my next Sunday Squirrel -

But not until I play with this some more -

I pressed both panels and sewed them into tubes -

Folded the first one so that it would fit on my cutting mat with the seams exposed -
It's easier to line up and keep straight if I can see the seams -

And I used a "lipped" ruler -

That is the same length as my cutting mat -

And as I cut the strata into strips -

I pinned them to my ironing mat draped over the end of my kitchen island -
It's easier than traipsing back and forth to the design wall in the hallway -
Besides - the Dresden Plates are still on the one wall -
And my first LHQSQ is on the other -

So - after I cut most of the first panel -

I was tired of cutting and wanted to SEW something - LOL -

I started with the first four strips - decided that I wanted it to go from FAT to SKINNY and back again - and decided where I wanted the "step" to start - and that I wanted it to go UP at the beginning -

I had pressed the seams on the panel UP since it was easier to cut the strips if the seams went AWAY from me and the rotary cutter - but that meant that every other strip had to be "reversed" so the seams went DOWN to nest more easily - BEFORE I "un-sewed" the strips -

Having the panel read the same from the top and bottom certainly helped - since all I had to do was "reverse" them and it didn't mess up the color flow at all -

Sometimes I do cool stuff totally by accident -

Love it when that happens - LOL -

ODD columns - seams go UP -

EVEN columns - seams go DOWN -
It seams counter-intuitive - but you'll see later why I do it that way -

Flip the ODD columns face up -

Put the EVEN columns down on top of the ODD ones - right sides together -

And sewed the first "twosies" -

Sewing the "twosies" has the strip with the seams going UP on the bottom - which is easy to check as you go along -

And - if I sew all of the sets together from left to right -

Once the "twosies" are sewn -

ALL of the seams on the bottom section will be going DOWN as I progress across the top -

The section on the top will have the seams going UP - and those I can see - making them easy to nest as I go along -

Pulled the next four strips - did the same thing - and sewed the "twosies" -

Pulled the next four strips -

Here you can see that the last strip in the "foursie" has all of the seams going DOWN -

I got to this part and before I even bothered to press it -

I had to see what it looked like ALL laid out -

So I took it to the kitchen island -

And I LIKE it!! - LOL - ;))

I told myself that I still have to sew these on the first panel -

And I still have to cut the rest of the first panel -

And cut all of the second panel - and get it all together -

Before I can play with the Sunday Squirrel -

In this box -

Maybe NEXT Sunday - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -