The Patchwork Blocks

More on the baby quilt today.  On those rare occasions where I get a day off and the girls are actually IN school (given our weather this winter, that's been an issue), I like to be able to clear off the table and get some actual work done.  So, while I'm not done with all the embroidered blocks, I took some time to cut out everything else for the top:

The top squares are actually the embroidery squares.  There are 10 of those.  The rest of the cutting is as follows:

2-1/2" squares of print fabric - 50
3-1/4" squares of print fabric - 20

2-1/2" squares of Kona "snow" - 40
3-1/4" squares of Kona "snow" - 40
3-1/4" x 6" rectangles of Kona "snow" - 20

I've saved the rest of the Kona for the borders.  I started with 2 yards of Kona, and will use most of it.  Thus far, I've used about 1/4 of each of the fat quarters in my bundle.

Next, I made 10 nine patch blocks with the 2-1/2" squares.

I cut each nine patch into quarters, then rearranged the pieces with 4 white and one print 3-1/4" squares into a new nine patch.  Once I was done with each block, I had a stack of 10 patchwork blocks.

Eventually, the embroidered blocks will be trimmed to 6", then assembled with two of the snow rectangles and one 3-1/4" square into a block the same finished size as the big nine patches.  The layout will look something like this:

Now it's off to finish all the embroidery blocks, so I can lay out the whole thing and assemble.