Please, show us your finished quilts Cathy!!
I found some notes on the internet, specially about the strips. Maybe you can share your thoughts about the strips with us? It might help making things a bit easier.
In the Quilt Lovely book is a quilt called Bonnie Lass. That's great for using up some scraps. You only need lots and lots of rectangles, all the same size
784 background and 784 feature fabric rectangles. I don't think I have that many scraps hahaha