I'd gotten a whole checkbook box full of 2 inch squares already cut - but not necessary square - so I made 4-patch blocks out of them as I wondered desperately how my newest little great nephew was doing in the hospital.. they had no idea what was wrong, expecting the worst, taking tests daily and ruling out everything as they went, finding in the end it was lactose intollerance and reflux... so i got a lot of blocks finished during that time, and as they came to a conclusion, so did I with that little box of squares; 81 blocks when finished!