I spent the morning adding the round of narrow strips to each block. That sewing didn’t go quickly because I can’t chain piece anything – each strip had to be constructed as I worked my way around a block; no two strips are the same. I’ve made an effort to not use any fabric more than once in each round to avoid duplicates when I start joining blocks.

Once I was finished adding the narrow border to each block, I laid them all out and placed the strips for the next round on each, doing my best to avoid repeating, in this final round, any fabric I used in previous rounds. I will check that each block has no repeated fabrics when I go to sew this outer round of strips. I have enough different fabric strips to be able to do that. That’s the case for both the “reds” as well as the “greys”.

Now I’m set to do the last round on these blocks.