The miracle of speed-piecing and lots of midnight quilting has surprisingly yielded a whole quilt's worth of squares in just 2 weeks! (OK, I admit that I still have many hours of applique left to lose my mind over.) The moral of the story is... pick the right pattern. My last quilt top took over 3 very long months to piece together and almost made me give up quilting before I'd even really started. But now I'm encouraged.
Per usual, the fun part was the endless planning in Powerpoint and Excel, creating all sorts of numbered diagrams to make speed-piecing possible for my "random" pattern. Here are a couple samples:
I don't recommend trying to figure out my system. I barely understand it myself and have to decipher it every time I reference the diagram.
