Well, I was going to work on cutting candies, but got distracted because I looked at the Riley Blake BOM site and then got into the free patterns and found a nice rose wall hanging that is made from all 2.5" squares . . .
This takes 467 neutral squares, and it just so happens that I cut up a big load of them for a 9 patch swap a few years ago, and then there weren't that many participants so I didn't use most of them. Was planning on making my own to go with, but after a year of sitting in a box, I got another idea and used the swap 9 patches and ended up with lots of leftover neutral squares.
So instead of grabbing yardage and starting to cut strips, I counted 2.5" squares and had about 450 so didn't need to cut up many more to have enough.