If you are stitching on the diagonal, and making more than 2 HST, then you would get 8 , but on the straight of grain
http://chezstitches.blogspot.com/201...revisited.html
if you stitch around the edge, then cut, you would get 4, but with bias edges
http://www.thatgirlthatquilt.com/201...es-3-ways.html