I did one like that but I made strips, sewed them together and then trimmed them to the right width and sewed those together. Since it made a design, I made various strips together, trimmed and then chose from my strip sets to sew together. It was ever so much easier to sew sets of 3- 1" squares together than 1 at a time. I had only four colors in the quilt, an off white, a light green and a dark green and a medium green. I made combinations of all t hose colors and worked with that...for example, three strips of off white sewn together, etc.