Bookcase

I have finished the book titles, and added the wood-grained fabric sashing strips to "build" the bookcase. I had thought this was going to be easy, but it was trickier than I thought.  I measured, five 10" blocks = 50 inches, with 1/4 in for seam allowance on each edge.  So, 50 1/2 inches.  I cut my strips.  But when I sewed them on, they didn't fit -- the sashing strips seemed to short.  I ripped it out, measured again, sewed it again.  Still too short.  Rip it out again.   Grrrrrr.  I ended up marking the centers, the quarters, and the eighths on the strips and quilt, and MAKING THEM FIT!.  At a quilt class I took once, the teacher made that the #1 rule!  "Measure in 3 places, take the average, cut strips exactly that length and MAKE THEM FIT."  After I had all the pins in, I matched them up, and sewed them. They DID fit after all! Whew!  I have done more ripping out in this quilt than any other I have done so far!

 But it was all worth it.  I am very pleased with this project.

Now I need some kind of outer border, and a backing.  For the outer border, I have seen other samples of this quilt that have "feet" on the bookcase bottom, and things like swords pieced into the border.  I'm not sure if I can get that fancy!  but I'll be thinking about it.  (I'm not sure where they got the patterns.)
 I'll be adding pics of more book titles.  Some I took from the list, and some I made up.  Not all the books have titles.  Anyway, here is my finished bookcase.