I'll try and get a picture of the comfort quilt when it is done, but we are on the fast track with this project. Turns out that you trimmed them by going from one sewing intersection to the next... so hard for me to describe and it seemed so wrong while doing it but it worked out fine in the end. Basically if you tilt that square template a bit on the diagonal up on the right top and then down to the left top side, that's the line we cut on and it makes the 9-patches even more tilted and they magically finished at 5.5" raw.
Each of us had a pretty matching set of blocks, so if there were 4 duplicates we each got one. Then we had different sashing solids to use. I had no more than 3 solids of any one tone, some were little scraps and just got one block out of them. I randomly sorted my solids and used them with whatever block came up next, only couldn't do one combination... the fabric was very orange and the fabrics were black and white little stars and it was just too Halloweenie. The orange worked fine with the next fabric and that fabric worked fine with the stars. Two of us made our blocks tilt one way, the other two the other way.
We'll be meeting a bit before regular time tomorrow to go over the blocks, layout and sashing choice. Next is some time with Hubby, he is starting at 4:00 AM again tomorrow so his bed time is 8:00. Then I need to figure out what to bring to group tomorrow to work on... it would be too suspicious for me to not have anything ready. I've got that purple quilt in kit form but I haven't cut the borders yet, that would probably be easy to bring but the fabric needs an ironing touch-up.