I want to make a quilt that looks close to this one (although using a different colour scheme). I like the pattern and the story that goes with the quilt in the post:

http://kimmccrary.blogspot.ca/2011/0...nas-quilt.html

I've made the coloured blocks and I'm wondering how to best assemble it, using the white strips? Bear in mind that I'm a beginner. I've squared up all the blocks and now I'm thinking that what they did was probably (after laying out all the blocks) to sew them together in rows with short white strips and then using long white strips strips to sew the rows together? Is that a good way to do it?

Thanks in advance.