Originally Posted by
Prism99
Taping will not work. However, if you have extra fabric, you can sew pieces together to "make" a new piece of fabric that is large enough. If you have a piece that is 1.5" wide and as long as your square, for example, you can sew it on and then cut the resulting piece to the correct measurement. Old-time quilters often had only small scraps to work with and would do this to get a piece of fabric large enough to cut to the size needed.
My mom was a garment sewer and did lots of it. I can remember her doing the exact thing to have enough fabric for a pattern piece (of which some were homemade patterns). She called this piecing "patching." She'd say, "I had to patch to get all of the pieces." Congratulations on being a new quilter. Don't hesitate to ask questions when you have a problem.