I am using Patches and Rhymes for my sample, which came out 52" x 43"

Fabric Requirements: 

3 FQ's of your focus fabric. This is the fabric you will use to choose the colors of the dark and light prints used in the rest of the mystery. The 3 FQ's do not have to be all the same fabric, but they should all have the same basic colors.

¼ yard (9" x 42") fabric for an inner border. Try a solid or something that reads as a solid in one of the focus fabric colors.

1 FQ light (To make it scrappy, use five 2" x 22" strips in different light prints)

1 FQ dark (To make it scrappy, use five 3" x 22" strips in different dark prints)

2 FQ's that co-ordinate with the dark and light fabrics.  Value doesn't matter, but make it a print that is clearly different from the focus fabric. (To make it scrappy, use eight 4 ½" wide strips from different fabrics)

1½ yard backing fabric

Optional: extra strips you have laying around, any width, any length.

Step One: cutting the focus fabric

From the 3 FQ's of Focus Fabric, cut ten 8 ½" x 8 ½" blocks.  Cut the extra fabric into strips, any width, it doesn't matter.  Put these in your extra strips pile.   

Step Two: Cutting the lights

Cut your light FQ into 2" x 22" long strips.  (If you forget and cut them 2" x 18", that's okay, they will still work.)  You will need 5 of these strips.  Put the extra in your extra strips pile.   

Step Three: cutting the darks

Cut your dark FQ into 3" x 22" long strips.  If you forget and cut them 
3" x 18", that's okay, they will still work.  You will need 5 of these strips.  Put the extra in your extra strips pile.   

Step Four: cutting the inner border

Cut the 9" x 44" quarter yard into four 2" strips. Put the extra in your extra strips pile.

Step Five:  cutting the setting blocks

Lay out the two FQ's that co-ordinate with the dark and light fabrics the long way (as you did above) and cut four 4 ½" X 22" strips from each.  Cross cut five strips into 4 ½" squares.  You should have twenty squares.  Put the extra in your extra strips pile.   

Time to stop and smell the coffee!  You should have ten 8 ½" x 8 ½" blocks from the focus fabrics twenty 4 ½" blocks from the co-ordinating fabrics five 2" x 22" strips from the light fabrics five 3" x 22" strips from the dark fabrics four 2" x 44" strips for the inner border a bunch of extra strips in different widths in your extra strips pile.

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