Delectable Mountain Borders

It's a nice feeling to get all those 72 blocks sewn together. I'm pleased with the layout of the different colors. But.....now the work really gets going!  I have to make 178 of those darned small blocks...the two inch ones made out of two triangles. That's a lot of stitching and squaring them up. Forty on top and bottom, and 49 on each side. And that's after sewing on two-inch strips first.  

Luckily when cutting out the pieces for the notorious 8" blocks, the instructions had me cutting out extra small colored triangles. And there were more white ones ready, too. That makes the job easier. Here's a photo of the extra pieces...looks like another quilt could be in the works....

Flagging the little triangles into the blocks was the faster, easier way to stitch them up. In other words, stitching a long line of the blocks together and then cutting them apart: saves time and thread!

My 1935 Featherweight was handy for this, and for stitching the quilt top!

Here's one group stitched but not cut apart yet. Each little square has to be pressed open. 

Then I can arrange them into a border row, making sure the different colors are distributed nicely, before stitching them all together.

Next step will be to cut the 6" wide white borders and sew them on and the Delectable Mountain Variation quilt top is completed!!!