First you sew the strips together, for example yellow and purple. Then you cut across both colors so you have a rectangle unit with both colors. Then you put 2 of those together to make a 4 square unit - flip so that each color is diagonally across from the matching one. This 4 square is what should be 6-1/2.
not the best picture, but you'll get the idea
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