Hello, today I'd like to show you how to make another block using 5 inch squares. I just enjoy 5 inch squares so much. So one of the things I enjoy about the 5 inch squares is that you can get so much variety within a quilt. So even though some of the pieces are cut down and we're not using them as 5 inch squares, it gives you a starting point and there's not a lot of wastage usually so it's really good. So this is a little block that I've simply called rectangles and it's really just three rectangles but it's quite versatile and fun and I've chosen for this one to just use three colours, different fabrics but all within colours so I've chosen blue, green and yellow. So I've just made a little stack of three 5 inch squares on my board here and I'm just going to, first of all, trim off 1 1 1 side of the 5 inch square. So I've got everything lined up with my board to help me cut and I'm going to cut off just 1 1 1 side of the square. Then I'm going to turn that square around and I'm going to cut that in half now so it 2 1 1 1 1 1. So I'll end up with rectangles that are 2 1 1 1 1 1 by 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 so they'll all work well together. So there I've got my three colours there, I've got my yellow, my blue and my green. So now I'm just going to sew together, I've chosen to do the blue on the left, the green on the right and the yellow along the bottom and then of course you turn it round, we won't go there. So I'm going to sew those together just with my regular quarter inch seam allowance. This is a very fun quilt, it's quick and easy and it's great for using some of these novelty prints but you can make it just as well using completely random fabrics, you don't have to just use three colours. So that's seam and we'll just press that, I like to press as I go, I find I get a much better result in the end. So just decide which way you're going to iron it and I'm going to iron towards the blue so I would lay down my green and I will just let that flip over and you get a really nice press seam. And now I'm going to come back and sew my yellow one on so now I'm going to turn that around and sew the yellow one there and because I'm doing them with the same colour format for the quilt I'm going to make, I need the blue to be at the bottom. So that it's the same so all the blocks have the same layer colour layout if you're doing three colours like this. And then I'm just going to sew that seam. And again back to the iron. Next time lay down your two bits and let that yellow flip over with the iron. This would be great for using up all sorts of these novelties in an eye-spice sort of quilt. So now I've got my block, I've got two blocks the same so I've actually made some head so that I can show you a couple of different layout possibilities. So I've put some together into some strips already. So you could just lay them and you could just make long strips. So you're just joining if you've got your two blocks you just keep on joining them so that the yellow goes in between all the colours and so you're getting this line of blue through here and the line of green through there. So I'm just going to lay another strip. So if we lay them out all the same way with the yellow to the same side each time you can see that you can actually end up with a kind of sashed lot of strips so that you've got this stripe of yellow coming through and then your blue and green will alternate all the way down. And that's quite fun on its own. Another option would be just every second row flip it round. So just everything's piece the same initially but you just do one one way and the other way. So if I've just split both of those around like that every second row. Then you get an almost sort of basket weavey effect when you stand back and have a look at it. So personally that's the layout that I will probably be using. I think that's great. So that's nice and bright and colourful but maybe you don't want to just do it in three colours. So I'll just show you another option just using random piecing for the colour placement. I've got a different range of fabrics. I'm actually using up some reproduction 5 inch squares here. So the same thing I've made my strips and you could do it the same way but you'll have a completely different effect because you won't get that single colour coming through and all your pieces will be random colour placement. But again if you flip every second row you don't get the same sort of basket we've but what you do get is a very pleasing mix of colour. So you could do completely random colours all over or you can organise it a little bit more like I have with the bright colours and have your three colours going. So there's just another idea for using some of those 5 inch squares which are just so versatile. So this, did I tell you the sides of the block will be 4.5 inches wide and 6.5 inches long. So that just helps you calculate and that's because we cut them into 2.5 inch by 4.5 inches pieces. So 4.5 inches wide, 6.5 inches long. And just another great way of using 5 inch squares. Thank you.