Progress on Around the World

I have been working on the Around the World Quilt.  Ever since I put it out on the design board, and can see the larger picture, I got excited about it again.  Take a look!

Lots of horizontal strips to sew together.  I'm not sure how many rows I want to add, I am thinking I'd like the largest dark diamond to meet at the top and the bottom.  The limitation will be if I have enough of the lightest fabric.  It's not much that I have left.  I am also thinking I'd like it to be at least one or two squares wider.  Adding a strip to each side will be easy enough.  Again, will I have enough fabric?   The class I took had this listed as a "throw" and I have enough fabric for that.  But I like making larger quilts. These are 3 in. squares, finishing to 2-1/2 in.  So it's 62.5 inches wide so far.  Another strip on each side would make it 67.  A small border would add another 3 or 4 in.  So 70" x ? @ 80" ?  There sure is a lot of math and geometry to quilts, isn't there!  I'm a lot better at sewing than I am at math.

I'm excited to see how it turns out.  I have to decide on a backing fabric, and also on a binding fabric.  Decisions, decisions, decisions!