No fussy cutting. Whatever way the template fit that is how she cut the scraps. She did you all the same binding around each one so the backing would be the same. The quilt made me dig out my quilt as you go templates and start one. They are addicting. The template is Daisy and Grace from MS. I found a large template in my template drawer I forgot about. A tutorial was posted here years ago how to do this and I ordered from the link there.