fmhall, you might have to "edit" the bigger article or maybe "continue" it to another block. I rejected a few longer articles because I wanted to include as many as possible. I did learn that crazy quilts aren't as easy as they look. I had originally planned not to construct blocks, but just add the articles every-which-way with strips of red and black in between, but the articles would have had to be much shorter for that to work. Also, you can't see it in the picture, but using red thread I machine embroidered different embroidery stitches along the edges of all the strips in the traditional crazy quilt manner and meander quilted through the articles.