Tender Sweet Peas Author:Piece O'Cake Designs Inc. This block has a finished size of 16" and can be used by itself or with other designs from the series. We used a scrappy background, cut from many different light to medium/light blue and white prings, plaids and stripes. A minmum of one light and one light/med. fat quarter per black is suggested. If you are making 12 blocks, you will need 12... more » light and 12 light/med. fat quarters for the background. Choose background fabrics that blend into each other, rather than fabrics of high contrast. The more fabrics that you use in the background, the scrappier it will look.« less