Almost finished!

Afternoon everyone! I made a promise and now I am here to deliver. I feel bad writing a tutorial now that I have realized just how many mistakes I have made on this quilt. If you look really closely you will probably see some. I thought about selling this quilt once it was finished, but I don't know that I can accept money for what I think is a sub-par quilt. I guess I will keep it and add it to my vast collection of blankets. My husband says you can never have too many blankets, but I have to disagree. If the whole world froze over and I loaned out blankets to all my neighbors I would still have enough cover all my beds three times over.

Enough of that. On to Step three-ish.

Last I left you we had just finished our four squares.

Now we cut 8 1/2" rectangles from our 2" strips of white and sew them to the tops of our four squares. Once that is done we press them open. I always press to the side without seams which in this case is the white. Normally you would press toward the darker fabric. After you press them you trim them so they are all square (or rectangle).

Then you sew them all into one long strip and press. You want to trim the strip to make sure it is straight. To save time and trouble I folded my strip over twice, lining up my seams, and trimmed each side.

Next you sew two of your 2" white strips together on the short side so you have one REALLY long 2" wide strip. You will need to do this two more times so you have six long 2" wide strips. Sew one strip to each side of your four square strip.

I started one strip from the opposite end of the other so the small seams in the white strips do not line up.

Press, trim your ends, and sew the other four square strips to your white strips. Pay close attention that all your squares are going the right direction. Press.

Then you sew one 4" wide strip to the top and one to the bottom (And again, press). You should be left with four 4" wide strips. Sew two to each other to make two really long 4" strips. Then sew those to the sides. I alternated ends again so the seams in the white fabric don't line up with each other. Your quilt top is finished!

Now comes the fun part. The sandwiching, quilting, and binding step. I am being sarcastic. The quilting part is the part I hate most. You will see why when you get to that step. I have started the final step but I won't be able to finish for awhile so don't hate me if it takes a couple of weeks to finish this up.
In the meantime you can play a riveting game of "Spot the Mistakes".