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As you can see I've been making blocks and adding them to the design wall. 

There is one teeny tiny problem.

The design wall is just a bit too narrow for all the blocks to fit. You can see some of them hanging off the edge in the photo above. (They are at the far right.)

The bookcase that stores my fabric stash is right next to my design wall, but the bookcase leans forward a bit, and there is a space behind it. You can see it in the photo above - it's the dark area above and below the watermark in the photo. In theory this is not a problem, but I have had some blocks fall off the wall and slip BEHIND the bookcase, which is the equivalent of disappearing into the Pit Of Doom. Since I have a finite number of blocks and have used up every last inch of some of the fabrics, I could not afford to lose even a single block, so rather than work from the center to the right, and risk losing blocks into the POD, I went back to the far left of the quilt and worked from the left edge to the middle. Once the blocks pairs are sewn up, there will be space on the wall for the pieces to adhere and not hang off into space and be at risk of falling into the POD.

Because the pattern shifts half a block over, some of the block pairs are split up, with the dark part of the block sewn at the far right edge of the quilt, and the corresponding light part will be a the beginning of the next row. (This pattern LOOKS easy, but that's deceptive.)

I have sewn all the blocks together.  Don't get excited. I still have tinkering to do.