Here's a good scrapbustin' pattern! This particular model of Courthouse Steps came from a Moda University pattern and features a 12 inch finished block. Uses 1.5 inch strips for the 9 patches (3 inch finished) and 2 inch strips for the steps. The scrap border is made up of leftover 2 inch x 4.5 inch pieces. I did buy yellow sashing and the blue to avoid a Christmas look due to a lot of red and green, but all the rest came from stash. This quilt has been left in 3 pieces in order to make the quilting on my home machine much easier. Very surprisingly, the border exactly matched each piece. I was wondering how I was going to handle that and it became a non-problem!
Now, to see a more traditional courthouse steps, using all 1.5 inch strips, here's Bonnie's example. As you can see, a real scrapbuster if there ever was one!
http://quiltville.com/courthousestepsdone.jpgHere's a link to a site that features log cabin as well as Courthouse Steps. Unless you are doing something really small, I cannot see how foundation piecing makes this better, although I see that it is a method that is popular.
http://www.equilters.com/library/logcabin/easy_log_cabin_part5.html
