Minor Setback

There was a minor setback in my quilting progress today. The day started off a little sluggish to begin with as it took me a good hour to lay the blocks out like I wanted them. I started laying them out randomly on the bed in the sewing room (really the guest bedroom), but I didn't like the way it turned out, so I picked them all up and moved the the living room floor. I put them out much more methodically the second time around and liked it much better. Now content with the design, I started sewing. I sewed the first three rows together and noticed the blocks weren't lining up very well. I thought about it for a minute and realized this is because the blocks are now 8 1/2" x 8 1/4" because they were only sewn together in one direction. This means I need to go through and trim all 50 blocks 1/4" along one of the length edges. Boo! I also need to trim the triangle pieces because I cut them to fit the 8 1/2 inch blocks instead of the 8 1/4 inch blocks. Quilting is tricky business! Once I figured all this out I started to do some seam ripping. I haven't gotten all the blocks apart yet, but I need to eat lunch and head off to work. I guess more progress will have to wait until next weekend (or maybe tomorrow if it rains enough to cancel insect detection work!).