If you have a lot of beige, cream or off white fat quarters to use in your stash, I would cut them into 4 3/4 inch strips. Then pile up the strips and cut them in various widths. For yardage, I would cut off 4-3/4 inch strips off a lot of different neutrals and then cut into strips. You could piece the strips into one long strip and then cut again into 4-1/2 inch squares or paper piece them onto 4-1/2 inch telephone page squares. Bonnie considers all her neutrals to be lighter then a brown paper bag.