I learned strip piecing early on, but now I find myself cutting individual pieces (and then, some of them by using templates). I belong to a group that is doing a Civil War block of the month. Each month we are given instructions for the "new" block. I try to imagine how that woman from the Civil War era did it. I use the templates or the small pieces and form the block "her way." EXCEPT, I do mine by machine instead of by hand stitching. {{{wink}}} I can see that some of these blocks would lend themselves well to strip piecing, so if/when I ever want to make more of these blocks, I will do it my way; but in all fairness to the authenticity of the block, I want to try to do it their way.