Jeannie -- I made a quilt sandwich for each block. The backing was 2 inches larger than the block and batting. Starting in the upper left corner, I drew diagonal lines every inch across the quilt. After they were quilted, I sewed them together and used the extra backing as sashing.
It is best explained here. I used their quilting and backing idea on regular quilt blocks.
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