Ladyjanedoe - I did use strips but not from precuts. I just used a lot of my scraps and cut the pieces individually and added a few strips from my stash to make enough. I have also made the same pattern using animal skin prints instead of florals and that is very stunning. I'll try to post a pic of that one later. I have also done it with just random scraps (mostly bright colors) and still want to do one in red, white and blue. The one I posted is the child's size and to me is a large lap size. It is not listed on the pattern but I made several even smaller using just 9 blocks which comes out a large baby size.