After reading your post yesterday stitch124 I flipped a set the way you described and it came out the same way. Had never timed myself to see how long it actually took me to make a set of 6 plus 1 for myself. I already had the blocks of batiks and blacks cut out into the squares. Clock set: sewed each set together by two's, resew into a 4 patch, iron, make the inch cuts, resew all again, iron, check size and stack. 1 hour and 14 minutes. I did chain piece every step for all 7. about 10 1/2 minutes per block. Then I had 3 left to do on another set and just made those blocks individually and it took much longer doing them one by one, about 14 minutes each. So for me chain piecing is way faster. The pattern for the Valentine one's are going to take longer I'm sure with the way it's cut. I'll have to find another routine to speed it up.