I love a new project, I’m so excited to get going on it that it seems I have twice the energy and endurance of normal sewing sessions. I had to get started on the maze quilt.
I decided the first maze I showed would be the one I would make. I counted the blocks and found it to be 25 wide and 37 long. Odd numbers! I’ll put the characters in the border, so I’ll think about them later. I have a large version of the maze printed and posted in my sewing room to refer to.
I dug out all the bright and dark scraps I had, plus a few on the lighter side. I didn’t want anything too light, as the path will be white and I don’t want part of the wall to look like path. I discarded some of the fabrics as too heavy, or not appropriate for a baby or child. The squares will be 1 1/2″ square finished, so I started by cutting 2″ strips.
At my sewing machine, I stitched together two random colors/prints. I left the strips whatever length they were, and didn’t care if the ends matched. Next would be trimming them.
Over at the cutting mat, I decided to trim the strips into 4″ lengths where possible, and 2″ if needed. Nothing smaller would work. My goal is to have a very random and colorful arrangement of fabrics as the wall of the maze.
I’m ready for the next part of the piecing. I’ll probably toss all the pieces in a small box and mix them gently so I’ll grab out two and have all different fabrics showing. Then I’ll stitch them together. (I started to describe the next step, but I think I’d better show it when I get there.)
If you plan to also make a maze quilt, I’d love to see it and hear about your ideas!
Quilt in Progress 
Cute! My maze quilt is this one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Maze-Quilt-Design-Choices/
and your just popped up in the Google Alert that I’d set up to follow it.
I did see yours on the web when I was searching to see if anyone else had done one. I thought it was quite well done. I also sew on a vintage Singer sometimes, and I find it very dependable. My finished quilt will look quite different, though, with prints and brights for the walls instead of sticking to only darks. I hope it comes out as nicely as yours! Also, I plan to do blocks of 16-patch (or more, because of the odd numbers) instead of 4-patch.