Week 4:
Nothing so confusing as last week’s corner beams! We’re making old-fashioned 4-patches this week. You need to make 16 (24) fourpatches of #1 + #2 and 20 (28) 4-patches of #1 and #4. (Remember that the parentheses are for people making queen-size.) If either fabric #2 (paired with fabric #1) or fabric #1 (paired with fabric #4) lend themselves to fussy cutting, you may want to do that. Don't do it with #1 paired with #2!
From Fabric #1 cut 6 strips 2 inches by width of fabric ( hereafter abbreviated as WOF). (12 strips 3 inches by WOF.)
From Fabric #2 cut 4 strips 2 inches by WOF. (11 strips, 3 inches by WOF.)
From Fabric #3 cut 2 strips 2 inches by WOF (6 strips by WOF)
From Fabric #4, cut 3 strips 2 inches by WOF. (6 strips 3 inches by WOF.)
Sew two strips of fabric #1 to two strips of fabric #2 down the full length of the strips. Crosscut into 2-inch sub-units. You want 32 units. Also cut 2 - 3 1/2 inch split-square units. Set those last two units aside and sew the 24 2-inch units into 12 4-patches. (Queen people will need 4 strips each of #1 and #2. Your 56 subunits are cut at 3 inches and you will also cut 4 split-square units at 5.5 inches.)
Sew 2 strips of #1 to 2 strips of #4 and crosscut into 40 subunits. Sew these into 20 4-patches. (4 strips each of #1 and #4. Cut into 56 3-inch subunits and sew these into 28 4-patches.)
Bag up the 4-patches by color and set remaining strips aside; you will need them for next week.