Quilt Progress

I made a lot of progress on my quilt today -- and it shockingly looks a lot like I planned! I started sewing around 7:30 this morning and began by sewing the navy strips and the patchwork strips together to make the first and third panels (as seen above). I then sewed the 3 panels together with a navy piece between each of the the panels. After that, I sewed on the border. It took quite a long time to get this all together -- I think I was finished with it around 3 pm. Once the top was finished, I measured, cut and sewed the backing pieces together. That was the simplest thing I've done all day. Then I made my quilt sandwich with the backing, batting and quilt top as you can see below. I've got it all pinned together and am working on drawing the quilting lines. I think I made a mistake by choosing to quilt it. Drawing these lines is taking forever and it's going to take a long time to sew all of them, too! Oh well, hopefully it will be worth it in the end. I'm going to keep drawing lines tonight and then tomorrow hopefully I can sew the sandwich together and put the binding on. The end is near!