I incorrectly identified a little project in my Loose Ends post a few days ago.
This little piece was made of leftover blocks from the second "real" quilt I ever made in 2002! (First was an Eleanor Burns baby quilt for GS-3 in 2001). The pattern is Honeycomb Waffle designed by Sara Nephew. It first appeared in her book Big Book of Building Block Quilts in 2001. That book was republished in association with Marci Baker in 2014 as Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin. Marci Baker is the author of ABC 3D published in 2010. All of these books have fun and attractive projects using strip piecing with both the 60-degree triangle and other odd angles.
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Nann/With Strings Attaached asked "How did you become an instructor for a particular ruler/technique?" I thought I would answer here.
Frankly, I don't remember!
Not long after I started quilting in the early 2000s, I took the Honeycomb Waffle class from Sara at the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show (I think) around 2001-2. I was enchanted by the 3-dimensional effect and thrilled with the strip-piecing technique; I wanted my fellow quilters to learn. I'm assuming I asked permission to teach from her patterns, using her ruler, and that she invited me to a training session in Bellingham, WA for certification. I learned a lot about using the ruler, but lots of other things like the value of value, and teaching techniques. I taught at many local guilds and retreats and even traveled a couple of times until I "retired" about 8 years ago.
Needless to say, I highly recommend the Clearview 60-degree ruler (comes in various sizes with lots of options). No gimmicks or oversizing in either Sara's or Marci's patterns.
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