I made one that's a 10" square quilt made up of nine 2.5" blocks - 5 pinwheel blocks and 4 square in square blocks. I just pieced it normally from cut off corners left over from a big quilt I was doing where I had to piece a square on a rectangle and cut off the corners. Then I put a 1" border on it and then my binding. I didn't plan it, just kinda was messing around with those half-square triangles and threw it together and it came out pretty well. I've never tried paper piecing.