preparing the fabric: washing, ironing, cutting strips

I had H. wash the fabric with the detergent that she uses. Then my daughter RM and I ironed the fabric and cut into strips. 

Read the directions three times, measure twice, cut once...


Here I trimmed what will become the backing piece, that we will sew our assembled strips sets to. Those strips we will pour the poly pellets into, one strip at a time going across.