Progress/process.......toMAYto, toMAHto !

I tried to post this last night, and it wouldn't let me do anything but a title !

I worked on the zigzag top yesterday, which by the way, doesn't seem to be wanting to be wonky at all.......we'll see when the entire thing is pieced.   Sometimes diagonal piecing in itself comes out wonky !

Anyway, here's a shot of how I lay out my strips, after I had decided on the color arrangement that I wanted.  I'm having purple and blue at one end, going through aqua, up to greens at the other end, with a few out of place pieces wherever they seemed to fit.  The strips seem to look different-colored within a zigzag row, but that is just the way the light hits the nap of the fabric.

For the zig zags, I need to make one set of strips, with say, the dark green and the medium dark green,......then the next strip needs to be the same medium-dark green with a medium green.  So I had to have two of each strip color.  They are laid out here on the ironing board ready for piecing.   

 At the end of the day, I had about 1/3 of the strip-sets done, as I am piecing a set, subcutting them into squares, and adding them to the previous set's squares, creating diagonal rows.   I preferred this idea to piecing and cutting all of the squares at once, and then trying to lay them all out and traipse back and forth from my bed (design wall, LOL) at one end of the trailer, to the sewing machine at the other end.  Before going to bed, I pictured what it would be like to wake up to find that the cats, who are closed up in the sewing room at night, had gotten into the strips and mixed up the order.   So, I promptly stowed them away, in order, in a basket with something placed on top to discourage any curiosity !

Here's the progress from yesterday's piecing.  It almost seems to shimmer a bit, huh?  Cool !
 I don't expect to get much done on it today, as I am watching Allyssia this afternoon, and this morning seems to be flying by at warp speed with household duties.

This is going to be an odd-sized quilt, as I am making it to the size that these two stripsets will allow.  It should work out to be a very good size for the back of the couch, which I keep covered against pethair.