Super Bowl/Valentine's Mystery Step One.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here are some pictures and a few words.

And I can also see that I left off some words. Where it says press, it should probably read trim and press. It will be helpful later in the process if you press your seams open instead of to one side.

These units are 2½ inches unfinished and are made scrappy from your various red and pink scraps. The large squares are 2½ inches and the smaller square to make the triangle corners are 1½ inch.

Sorry they're sideways. Silly camera.

While you are cutting the 2½ inch squares, cut an additonal six each of pink and red, and twelve of background fabrics.

Okay--have I confused you yet?
To sum up:   (2½ inches unfinished)
Six of these units with red squares and pink corners
Six with pink squares and red corners
Six plain squares each of read, pink, and 12 of background.

If you want to skip the piecing in this step, you can replace these and some piece units from the next step with plaing squares. In that case you will need a total of  18 each red and pink squares at 2½ inches and 12 of background.