Jaba, a couple of my local quilting buddies were wondering about my sanity! Started with 2" squares, yielded pairs of ~ 1-5/8" HST units, squared all to 1-1/2" to yield myriads of 1" finished! Some pages back is the photo of the trimmings from squaring up over 200 "ocean" pieces that I did at the beach the evening of July 3 when we hosted my parents there.