Two of Sixty Strips

I am back to working on the Bohemian Wife, all of the blocks are completed and they've been hanging out on my design wall since March. So now, it's time to do the cutting of the background strips. I've been putting it off, because this is the most complicated step and a big part of the reason I love the look of this quilt design so much. The commercial pattern is woefully inadequate to the complicated assembly scenario, but luckily there have been many sew-a-longs that have caused helpful people to make very useful spreadsheets. There really ought to be a chart like this in the printed pattern, that lists the section of the quilt, the lengths of strip required for all Sixty Strips. I think it's one of the main reasons this pattern has such a reputation for being difficult.

As I cut the segments of each strip I'm labeling them and then pinning them together. There are 10 sections total to be assembled into the quilt top...

So far I've only gotten two of the sixty strips cut out and placed with the blocks, those two on the left. It's either going to end up being a colorful riot or a riot of color, which is sort of the point.