Home Economics: Sewing Project, continued

Eventually, all the blocks were sewn into rows, and each row was sewn together to make a quilt that is 6 blocks across and 8 blocks long. My mother, the magician, somehow quickly made a lot of 2 1/2 inch strips of the yellow material using some curious folding technique that I don't have any pictures of to share...
These two pictures show that the strips were first sewn together to make a continuous edging, which was then ironed down the middle to make two evenly-sized halves.
The next step is to make the fringe, which is done by cutting into the fabric "seams" that are sticking out on one side of the quilt. This takes a long time and tires out your arm and hand, so it should be undertaken occasionally, with good breaks in between. Once all the fringe is cut, and it is sent through the washer and dryer (clean out the lint trap in the dryer OFTEN when this is done!), it will look fuzzy like the picture below. This is a wee pillowcase made out of 10 remaining squares that I couldn't use for the quilt: Once this project is done, I will post a picture of it before sending it up to Gainesville for M's baby shower! -G