I am a dirty cheater.

Remember all that progress on the Crazy Mom Quilt -a-long that I talked about here and here?

Well, until today, I was cheating... a little

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The weeks of the quilt-a-long were as follows: week 1- cutting fabrics (check!), week 2: sewing strips of fabric together (done!), week 3: cutting said strips into 490 squares (erm... say what?).

You see- I have no patience! So for the next week, where we actually started sewing the pieces together, I just cut as many squares from each fabric as I needed, thinking I will just cut as I go.

The problem with that is that knowing you have cutting to do before your sewing, makes you dread the sewing. Once you've started dreading the sewing, you get a little behind and before you know it, it's 3 weeks later and you've got a box that looks like this on a shelf in your sewing room:

Yup. A Center block, a few squares and a TON of strips that needed to be cut. So today (during Noah's loooooong nap!), I cut and cut until I thought my hand would fall off.

The box now looks like this: (dang that Mickey! I loathe him!)

BTW, I'm planning to use this box-o-randomness to place my squares- whatever I pull out, I use. Thanks to the wonderful kdmade for the awesome suggestion. My neurotic controlling self is having to let go a bit, but I'm surviving.

I am sewing weeks five and six tonight! It is so much faster and more relaxing without all the cutting! Lesson learned: while procrastination is easier, it's never better.