Retro Quilt

So I have decided that I needed to make myself a new quilt.  I haven't made myself a quilt in years, but tend to make at least 1 (if not more) for other people every year.  This will be a busy year with friends getting married and having babies so I need to get it started now.

I have been going through my stash lately.  I have been collecting and creating my stash for over a decade now (wow I feel old!).  I worked at a fabric and craft store and that is when it all started.  I collected some retro feeling fabrics and saved them all this time.  Upon a recent trip to my fabric store I found some more that matched my small collection so I picked up a couple yards and decided to get going on my quilt.

I have 9 different fabrics that I will be using.  I started slicing  up my fabric.  I am cutting 2.5 inch squares of all the fabrics.  But leaving some strips anywhere from 6 to 18 inches.

There is no pattern and as I lay out the squares I have some random strips scattered in.

I just lay out sections and then sew the sections into blocks that I can put together at a later date.

I want this to be a queen size (or at least full) quilt.  This is going to take a lot of squares and a lot of sewing.  I will keep updating on my progress as I go along.  I already have a back log of projects that I want to do so hopefully this won't get put away for anything else.