I am part of a monthly breakfast club at LQS. We get a new pattern every month along with breakfast and a recipe that coorelates for the month. Every pattern this year uses 2.5 inch strips...the patterns are nice because you can make anything from a placemat...to a queen sized quilt and it gives you the amount of strips for each range of color...Anyway...for January teh quilt's name was Grannie's Granola....It was tedious and I can't say I will want to do it again...but it turned out pretty. I put the last borders on this morning....I am going to try and quilt it on Sunday.