Al,

John's got a lot more experience building than I do but I used the same method he described on my current project (Spring Run) and did not experience an out of fair issue between my sections of strips. I've included a pic to show the pattern change and will also include a link to the build album on Photobucket so you can see the progression of the stripping....

http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll316/beaullieu/SpringRun2/

Regards,

Bob Beaullieu