Getting back to the charity quilt...finally!

This morning, I finished applying for the jobs that have been posted since last night.  Rather than doing what I have been doing lately--going back through each of the career sites multiple times, I decided to do something productive.  I just wasn't quite sure what that was going to be until I headed down to the kitchen.  My sewing area was entirely too clean.

And, since the deadline for me finishing the charity quilt is quickly approaching, I decided to start assembling the top.

I actually have spent many hours on it since my last post.  I decided to embroider  a few squares so that the person who ultimately receives the quilt will have a reminder of the charity that he or she helped to support.  I had originally decided to embroider five squares, but I settled for three.  Shhh...no one else will ever notice that the other two are missing!

Anyway, the first task was to figure out how to lay out the finished blocks.  Fortunately, I had a large patch of clean floor, and the dogs were very cooperative in that they were both too busy catching up on their beauty sleep to decide to rearrange the squares for me (as they have done in the past).

After moving blocks around for a while, I finally settled on the following arrangement:

Preliminary Layout

Then, it was time to cut and sew.  After four hours, I had assembled all the horizontal strips:

In progress...

Now, it is time to get back to checking the career sites to see if any new jobs have been posted.  While my phone interview yesterday went well, I need to keep looking until I have a signed offer or contract.

Tomorrow, though, I should be able to finish sewing the top.