When this pattern first came out I took a class how to make it. I entered the Mondo bag won Grand Champion at our fair that year in the sewing dept. I used the vinyl covered fabric for the lining, new at that time too. The judge said she had never seen anything like that bag. I placed the squares in a random pattern but the way it's sewn some of the same will be next to each other. The only way to not have it that way is to use all different squares.