Camping Lap Quilt - Part 1

Now that all of my baby projects are done, I had two projects to chose from: 1) the camping lap quilt or 2) the covers for the trailer cushions.

I decided to get started on the lap quilt. I had no idea what I wanted to do with it, so I started combing my pinterest quilting board to see which I wanted to do. I have enough quilt projects on there to last a long time! I finally chose this one:
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2013/09/one-way-to-randomize-patchwork.html to do.

I have NO idea why I thought small squares were a good idea. Oh wait, yes I do! I had two packages of fabric that was already cut in 2.5" strips. I went ahead and cut both sets up and decided to mix them for the random patterns. They're definitely not as random as the ones in the inspiration quilt.

I cut them into 3" squares (yes, I know they're technically not squares because of the 2.5" width). Each fabric has 42 squares, so I have 672 to work with. I have no idea how big this quilt will end up being, so hopefully that's enough. If not, I do have other fabric that is the same, it's just not in the strips, so it'll require a bit more cutting.

Fabric options

I decided to get started on it as soon as I had all of the squares cut. I didn't bother to trim excess thread as I was going, so that'll be a tedious project later.

The first 4 rows/columns

I'm not quite sure yet if these will stay rows or become columns. Especially since I'm still deciding how big the quilt will be. Can't wait to make more progress on this one and figure out what I want my backing fabric/pattern to be. I may do a "reversible" quilt. Because you know, it's for me... so if I screw it up, it's fine!