Well that step is done, and went better.

But then I started out the next step with a rookie mistake.  While it's a little difficult to tell from the photo, there IS a right side and a wrong side to the fabric.  And guess <g> how I started off?

Back to frog-stitching...

It's also slower going since my focus fabric is directional - 

and "somehow" <g> one strip got sewn on upside-down and needed to be redone.

I'm being more careful now!

Plus for some reason I'm finding it more challenging than it should be to figure out which way to sew the diagonals.  So a simple project is not so simple after all!

It's already going on 11:00 and I'm way behind where I thought I'd be by now.