The Line Up

I'm so excited to start joining together the components of my 2016 Daily Stitch Project into a large piece.  It's like quilting where the individual squares are nice, but the real magic happens when they start interacting with one another.  Sometimes I have to let go of a special frayed edge, but that's the way it goes.  I especially like when a block that was somewhat plain on its own really enhances those around it, or when one picks up the colors of the adjacent one and they form a new design.  They play so nicely together.

Because the strips are so long, the process involves laying all the components out on the carpet and rearranging until I'm happy.  I decided on 2 long sections for each month, but they are still ending up about 6 ft. long.  I may break that down to 3 shorter sections for each month.  I got the idea of putting casings on top of each strip and using a simple rod so I could move them around easily.  That way I could do seasonal clusters if I don't have space for the whole year to hang at the same time.

These are from Feb. 2016:
 

 I didn't bother posting any individual pieces this month since they are still black and white and very similar to Jans. but here are a few of the segments.

Next month color starts moving in.