I recently finished a corduroy quilt that was commissioned by a friend who provided the fabric. It was a mix of colors, wale widths, weights and degrees of stretch or not. I had originally intended to do a modified log cabin design, but the squares came out all cockeyed and different sizes, so I just used the 8" centers for most of the squares, used some of the 2" strips for a few rail fence squares to create a diamond pattern on one side, then used the remaining 2" strips for the border/binding. Since I had the same size squares on both sides it was really easy to tie in the corners of the squares. This thing is heavy as all get out, being corduroy on both sides, but really warm.